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Root Verb

بنى

bana

to build

ب ن ي

This is a Form I defective verb, meaning its third root letter is a glide (y), which appears as 'ee' in most past tense forms and drops before plural suffixes.

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I built"

"to build" in the other dialects