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Root Verb

كتب

katab

to write

ك ت ب

A regular Form I sound verb. In Gulf Arabic, the present tense prefix vowel is often 'i' (e.g., yiktib) and the unstressed 'a' drops in 'katbat' and 'katbaw'.

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I wrote"

"to write" in the other dialects