Lesson 28 – الدَّرْسُ الثَّامِنُ وَالْعِشْرُونَ

Conjugation of Verbs in Arabic: Past, Present and Imperative - تَصْرِيف الْفِعْلِ: الْمَاضِي وَالْمُضَارِعُ وَالأَمْرُ

Introduction – مُقَدِّمَةٌ

• This is lesson twenty eight of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• In this lesson we will discuss the main parts of speech in the Arabic language:

• The noun الاسْمُ
• The verb الْفِعْلُ
• The particle الْحَرْفُ

• We will also learn some signs عَلامَاتٌ through which we can identify nouns, verbs (past, present and imperative) and particles.  For example, in the verbs below we will be able to identify from the signs - i.e. letters - whether the verb is in past, present or imperative tense – i.e. based on the letters and pattern of the verb.

• We will also discuss the types of verbs in Arabic - namely past, present and imperative form in more detail (we previously discussed this topic in lesson 4, part 12), as follows:

• We will also discuss the concept of radicals – i.e. the number of letters present in a verb.  The vowel of the first letter in the verb of the present tense changes based on the number of radicals of its past form.   The past form may be made up of three, four, five or six radicals, as shown in the following table – these are examples and we will go into the rules a bit later so you understand this: