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Root Verb
تزوج
tzawwaj
to get married
ز و ج
Although the root is hollow, Form V treats the middle 'w' as a strong consonant, so it conjugates like a regular sound verb. The metathesized variant تجوز (tjawwaz) is also extremely common in everyday Levantine speech.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I got married"
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.