The Past Tense Verb (I)
In lesson 1 you learnt that a verb is a word that denotes a state or an action in a particular tense (past, present or future). In the Arabic language, a verb in the past tense is called (الفعل الماضي) such as in the following example: ضَرَب - he struck
The past tense has 14 different forms. In this lesson you will become familiar with the first three forms of the past tense and how to construct them. Verb forms, (مُذَکَّر غائب) These are known as the 3rd person masculine wherein the doer is absent from the conversation and is being talked about