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i made a 6 week summer plan!!

i’m going to following along roughly with this plan myself!! i’ve got big goals for self-improvement and detox this summer and i just want to start autumn afresh with big goals and hopes for the future!!

Welcome to the eighth Arabic lesson. Today we’ll be discussing verb tenses. Arabic has 3 tenses: present (مُضَارِع), past (مَاضِي), and imperative (أَمْر).

We’ll start with the present tense. The present tense is the root of the verb + a prefix that indicates who the doer is. So if we take the verb ‘play’. Its root is (ل ع ب). And its present tense would be يَلْعَب meaning: he plays.

The prefixes that precede the verb: ( يـ ، تـ ، أ ، نـ )

يَلْعَب = he plays

تَلْعَب = she plays

أَلْعَب = I play

نَلْعَب = we play

The past tense is defined by having the short vowel ‘a’ at the last letter of the verb. The verb doesn’t have a prefix indicating the doer in the past.

لَعِبَ = he played

اِسْتَعْمَلَ = he used

ذَهَبَ = he went

نَامَ = he slept

For a single female doer just add a ت at the end

لَعِبَتْ = she played

اِسْتَعْمَلَتْ = she used

ذَهَبَتْ = she went

نَامَتْ = she slept

We’ll explain how to have more than one doer in the next lesson.

The imperative tense is characterized by adding a ا at the beginning of the word with the short vowel ‘i’.

اِذْهَب = !go

اِلْعَب = !play

اِسْتَعْمِل = !use

If there’s a vowel in the verb you remove it.

مَشَى (he walked) -> اِمْشِ = !walk

نَامَ (he slept) -> نَمْ = !sleep

Notic how the imperative verb ‘sleep’ doesn’t have an alef at the beginning. There are exceptions to this rule but they’re very few so you don’t have to worry about them.

trillbrazil:

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. It’s an area composed of sand dunes that gets flooded by rainwater every year to create these gorgeous freshwater lagoons. One of the places I must visit in my lifetime.

i miss brazil ..ugh