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Root Verb
أَطْفَأَ
atfa2a
to turn off
ط ف أ
Form IV verb (switch off, put out); the present starts with u- (yutfi2u).
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I turned off"
How these tenses work
The present tense
Person prefixes, plus the dialect's marker for "now" or "usually".
The past tense
One stem, eight endings.
The future
One small prefix or word in front of the present.
Saying "not"
Negating verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Roots and verb forms (Form I–X)
How three root letters and a pattern make a verb.
Verb classes: sound, hollow, defective, doubled
Why some verbs change shape when they conjugate.