Lesson 32– الدَّرْسُ الثَّانِي وَالثَّلاثُونَ

Sound Verb and Defective Verb – الفِعْلُ الصَّحِيحُ والمُعْتَلُّ

Sound and Defective Verbs

• We are still in lesson thirty two of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• In Part (1) of Lesson 13 (Maqŝuur, Manquuŝ and Mamduud Nouns), we learnt that there are three weak letters in Arabic, called DEFECTIVE LETTERS أَحْرُفُ الْعِلَّةِ, i.e. (ا، و، ي). Accordingly, the verb in Arabic is divided into two categories: sound and defective.
• A sound verb is that which does not contain a defective letter among its radical letters. For example:

• A defective verb is that which includes one of the three defective letters (ا، و، ي) whether in the initial, medial or final position of the verb. For example: