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There are three tenses in Arabic: the past tense (اَلْمَاضِي al-māḍī), the present tense (اَلْمُضَارِع al-muḍāriʿ) and the future tense.The future tense in Classical Arabic is formed by adding either the prefix سَـ sa-or the separate word سَوْفَ sawfa onto the beginning of the present tense verb, e.g. سَيَكْتُبُ sa-yaktubu or ...
Compound tenses with the example of the verb ʕimil (to do) [86] [87] [80] kān in the past tense kān in the present tense Followed by Levantine English Levantine English Past tense كان عمل kān ʕimel: he had done بكون عمل bikūn ʕimel: he will have done Active participle كان عامل kān ʕāmel: he had done بكون ...
Arabic grammar (Arabic: النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages .
The past tenses of the verbs قعد /gaʕad/ ('he sat/remained') or جلس /d͡ʒalas/ ('he sat') can be used before present verbs to express a past continuous tense which is similar to the English usage of "kept" as in قعد يكتب عنه /gaʕad jiktub ʕanːu/ ('he kept writing about him').
The past tense of kteb (write) is as follows: I wrote: kteb-t. You wrote: kteb-ti (some regions tend to differentiate between masculine and feminine, the masculine form is kteb-t, the feminine kteb-ti) He/it wrote: kteb (can also be an order to write; kteb er-rissala: Write the letter) She/it wrote: ketb-et. We wrote: kteb-na
Tense Sentence Translation Romanian: Present: tu oi face: You might do. Past: tu oi fi făcut: You might have done. Progressive: tu oi fi făcând: You might be doing. Aspect Tense Sentence Translation Hindi: Habitual: Present: tū kartā hoga abhī: You must/might be doing it now. Past: tū kartā hogā pêhlē. You must/might have done it ...
The verb system is very intricate with the following tenses: Present; simple past; past progressive; present perfect; and past perfect. In any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present perfect, past perfect), Pashto is an ergative language; i.e., transitive verbs in any of the past tenses agree with the object of the sentence ...
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.