Past Tense (Perfect)

الفعل الماضي

About this concept

Perfect/past tense: completed actions. Base form is 3rd person masculine singular. Conjugation by suffix: كتب (he wrote), كتبتُ (I wrote), كتبوا (they wrote).

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~45 cards at level A1.

Examples

كَتَبَ (kataba)he wrote

كَتَبْتُ (katabtu)I wrote

ذَهَبَتْ (dhahabat)she went

أكلنا (akalnaa)we ate

Prerequisite

Personal PronounsA1

Concepts that build on this

Present Tense (Imperfect)A1 Weak VerbsB1 Doubled VerbsB1 Passive VoiceB1

More A1 concepts

Arabic Alphabetالأبجدية العربية Letter Forms and Connectionsأشكال الحروف Short Vowels (Harakat)الحركات Long Vowelsحروف المد Definite Article الأداة التعريف

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