Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011
Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011
Moroccan Arabic textbook 2011
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Peace Corps / Morocco • 49<br />
Some Irregular Verbs with long vowel “a” ( ) in the middle position<br />
to see<br />
šaf<br />
to get up /<br />
stand up<br />
naḍ<br />
to do / make dar to throw laн<br />
to swim amع to pass / pass by daz<br />
to sell عba to pass fat<br />
to bring<br />
jab<br />
to love / be<br />
dying for<br />
to say gal to increase zad<br />
to fast sạm to be scared xaf<br />
to drive sạg to live ašع<br />
Some examples:<br />
mat laع<br />
This morning I got up at 7:00.<br />
What did you do yesterday<br />
What‟s done is done. (proverb)<br />
had ṣ-sḅaн ndṭ f s-sbعa.<br />
šnu drti l-barн<br />
lli fat mat.<br />
Exercise: Put the verbs in parentheses in the correct form.<br />
s-simana lli fatt, ana u ṣнabi (amع)<br />
f la-ppisin.<br />
Sara (ašع) f mirikan .amaynع<br />
nhar s-sbt f l-عšiya, ana u ṣнabati<br />
(kan) f l-нmmam. mlli xrjna (daz) l<br />
l-qhwa.<br />
2 nd Category: long vowel “a” ( ) at the end<br />
To conjugate a verb with the long vowel ―a‖ at the end, change the vowel to ―i‖ for the I, you (sing.),<br />
we, and you (plur.) forms, then add the normal endings. For the she form, only add a ―t.‖ The he<br />
and they forms are like regular verbs.<br />
In these forms,<br />
we change the<br />
final ―a‖ to ―i‖<br />
then add the<br />
endings.<br />
In these forms,<br />
we keep the final<br />
―a‖ and then add<br />
the endings.<br />
“to eat”<br />
I ate<br />
you ate (masc. sing.)<br />
you ate (fem. sing.)<br />
he ate<br />
she ate<br />
we ate<br />
you ate (plur.)<br />
they ate<br />
kla<br />
klit<br />
kliti<br />
kliti<br />
kla<br />
klat<br />
klina<br />
klitu<br />
klau
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