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Root Verb

اشتغل

ishtaghal

to work

ش غ ل

Form VIII sound verb. In the past tense, the unstressed 'a' is often dropped when suffixes starting with a vowel are added (e.g., ishtaghlat instead of ishtaghalat).

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I worked"

"to work" in the other dialects