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Root Verb

دفع

difa3

to pay

د ف ع

This is a Form I sound verb. In the present tense, adding vowel suffixes causes the stem vowel 'a' to drop and an epenthetic 'i' to be inserted to prevent a three-consonant cluster (e.g., yidfa3 becomes yidif3oon).

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I paid"

"to pay" in the other dialects