Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011

Peace Corps / Morocco • 149
Some examples:
I brought in a dog to the house
but my father took it out.
The clown makes small kids
laugh.
Take this table out of here,
please.
Passive Verbs
dxxlt waнd l-klb l ḍ-dạr
welakin bba xrrju.
l-klun kay-ḍннk d-drari
ṣ-ṣġar.
xrrj afakع had ṭ-tḅla mn
hna.
Transitive verbs can be made passive by adding t ( ) to them, as shown below:
to write
to be written (masc.)
to be written (fem.)
to be written (plur.)
to understand
to be understood (masc.)
to be understood (fem.)
to be understood (plur.)
to buy
to be bought (masc.)
to be bought (fem.)
to be bought (plur.)
to steal
to be stolen (masc.)
to be stolen (fem.)
to be stolen (plur.)
ktb
tktb
tktbat
tktbu
fhm
tfhm
tfhmat
tfhmu
šra
tšra
tšrat
tšrau
srq
tsrq
tsrqat
tsrqu
Some examples:
Ali ate pizza.
The pizza was eaten.
The teacher wrote the lesson.
The lesson was written.
The students understood the
riddle.
The riddle was understood.
l-pitza. liع kla
tklat l-pitza.
l-ustad ktb d-drs.
d-drs tktb.
t-tlamd fhmu l-luġz.
l-luġz tfhm.