Lesson 34– الدَّرْسُ الرَّابِعُ وَالثَّلاثُونَ

Active and Passive Voice – الفِعْلُ المَبْنِي لِلْمَعْلُومِ وَالفِعْلُ المَبْنِي لِلْمَجْهُولِ

Passive form of present verb tense

• In this part we will study how to change the present tense verb from the active into the passive voice. If you remember what we did with the past verb tense, we do the same here with the vowel of the first radical, i.e. changing it into đammah. For the vowel of the pre-final radical, we change it into fatħah, not kasrah as in the case of the past tense verb.
• In order to change the present tense verb from the active into passive voice, we have to do two things as follows:

1. Change the vowel of the first radical into đammah.
2. Change the vowel of the pre-final radical intro fatħah.

• Study the following examples and notice the highlighted changes of the first and pre-final vowels.

• View the examples above, most of which were mentioned in Part 5, but here the verbs are in the present tense form. If we study some of the these verbs, for example  the verbs (يَسْتَقْبِلُ، يَسْتَخْرِجُ، يَحْتَفِلُ)  we find that the vowel of the initial radical of these verbs is fatħah while the vowel of the pre-final letter is kasrah. In addition, the verbs (يَكْتُبُ، يَأْكُلُ) has an initial fatħah vowel and a pre-final đammah vowel.
• In all the cases above, the verb changes as follows:

1. The vowel of the first radical into đammah.
2. The vowel of the pre-final radical intro fatħah.