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 Hit
/ he (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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