← Back to all Iraqi Arabic verbs

Root Verb

حاول

7aawal

to try

ح و ل

Form III verb. Although the root is hollow, it conjugates regularly like a sound verb in this form. Note that the short 'i' in the present tense drops before suffixes starting with a vowel (e.g., y7aawil becomes y7aawloon).

1 / 48

Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I tried"

"to try" in the other dialects