Past tense / Present Tense Verbs [Doing words]

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2 Letter words


Past Tense / Present Tense

KAAnA [ كَانَ ] / yaKoonu [
يَكُونُ ] = | he Did / he IS doing

QaaLA [
قَالَ ] / yaQoolu [ يَقُولُ ] = | he Said / he IS saying



Try putting the word Taaba into Present tense.
 [
تَابَ ] = (Turned back (Repent) to the good way]).




3 Letter words


dArAbA [
ضَرَبَ ] / yaDribu [ يَضرِبُ ] = | he Hithe (is) hitting

QaTaLa [
قَتَلَ  ] / yaQtulu [ يَقتَلُ ] = | he Fought / he (is) fighting

ShAhAdA [
شَهَدَ ] / yaSh-Hadu [ يَشهَدُ ] = | he WitnessED / he (is) witnessing



Future Tense

The Future tense is just like the Present tense, except you add the Letter 'Seen' [ سَ ] (pronounced 'Sa') or the word 'Sawfa' [ سَوفَ ] before the Present tense Verb.

i.e.سَوفَ يَقتُلُ (Sawfa yaQtulu) | سَ يَقتُلُ (Sa yaQtulu) = Soon he(will) Fight.



What we've Learnt
:

1 - You see that the
Past tense has a Fat-ha/zabar on every Letter.

2 - You see that the
Present tense always has an Orange Prefix letter before it. The letter Ya = He was used in the examples above. i.e.
yaDribu [ يَضرِبُ ] = he is hitting.

The following could also be used;Ta [ تَ ] = You. Nun [ نَ ] = We. Alif [ اَ ] = I.   i.e. We are Hitting [Na-Dribu] =  نَضرِبُ

3 - The blue vowel marking on the 2nd letter [of the 3 root lettered word] will be different depending on the word. You will have to look at the Dictionaries to know what vowel sound is used for what word. But this is not important for you to know now because theMeaning stays the same.

4 - The Future tense is just like the Present tense, except you add the word/letter 'Sawfa/Sa' beforethe Verb.



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