Lesson 12 - الدَّرْسُ الثَّانِيَ عَشَرَ

Continued

• We are still in lesson twelve of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• In this part of the lesson we will learn the conversion of the Arabic masculine verb to the feminine verb In-Shā’-Allâh.
• For the past tense of a verb i.e. الْفِعْلُ الْمَاضِي the following rules are applied

• When a masculine noun is changed to a feminine for the pronoun (e.g. from 'he' to 'she' in the example above), a letter 'ta’' with a sukūn 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 with the article (al) (e.g. the girl) then instead of a 'ta’ with a sukūn a 'ta' with the genitive case (kasrah) is added to the verb i.e., the verb will be ذَهَبَتِ الْبِنْتُ instead of ذَهَبَتْ الْبِنْتُ.
• Let’s take some examples to better understand the rule: