In this part of the lesson we will Insha Allah learn the conversion of a masculine verb to the feminine verb.

For the past tense of a verb i.e., الْفِعْلُ الْمَاضِي the following rules are applied

When a masculine noun is changed to feminine for the pronoun (e.g. from 'he' to 'she' in example above), a letter 'ta' with a sukun is added at the end of the verb that follows i.e., ذَهَبَ will be changed to ذَهَبَتْ.

However when the noun is a subject following a verb, and that noun is definite (e.g. the girl) then instead of a 'ta with a sukun a 'ta' with the genitive case (kasra) is added to the verb i.e., the verb will be ذَهَبَتِ الْبِنْتُ instead of ذَهَبَتْ الْبِنْتُ Lets take some examples to better understand the rule: