Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011
Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011
Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011
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Peace Corps / Morocco • 103<br />
Sometimes, ġadi is contracted to ġa. The future tense in this case:<br />
“to travel”<br />
I will travel<br />
you will travel (masc. sing.)<br />
you will travel (fem. sing.)<br />
he will travel<br />
she will travel<br />
we will travel<br />
you will travel (plur.)<br />
they will travel<br />
safr<br />
ġan-safr<br />
ġat-safr<br />
ġat-safri<br />
ġay-safr<br />
ġat-safr<br />
ġan-safru<br />
ġat-safru<br />
ġay-safru<br />
Negation of the Future Tense<br />
To form the negative of the future tense, add ma...š (<br />
Will you travel<br />
weš ġadi t-safr<br />
) to ġadi, ġadya, or ġadyin.<br />
No, I will not travel.<br />
lla, ma-ġadi-š n-safr.<br />
To express ―will never,‖ we do not use the future tense, but rather ma mmrع (<br />
tense of a verb without the prefix ka.<br />
) and the present<br />
I will never smoke.<br />
We will never travel at night.<br />
ma mmriع n-kmi.<br />
ma mmrnaع n-safru b<br />
l-lil.<br />
To express ―not yet‖ when speaking about the future, use mazal ma ( ) or baqi ma ( ) with<br />
the future tense.<br />
We will not go to bed yet.<br />
I will not get married yet.<br />
mazal ma ġadyin n-nعsu.<br />
baqi ma ġadi n-tzuwj.<br />
For the remainder of the book, all of the different forms of the future tense will be used<br />
in order for you to become familiar with all of them.
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