- first-person
plural imperfective/present
tense verbs. Thus هُوَ يَكْتُب huwa
yaktub ("he writes") → نَحْنُ نَكْتُب naḥnu
naktub ("we write"). It is retroflex...
- a
prefix is the
marker for a
singular imperfective verb, as in يَكْتُب
yaktub "he writes" from the root ك-ت-ب K-T-B ("write, writing"). Yāʾ with a shadda...
- (مَنْصُوبٌ manṣūb), is used in
phrases such as "so that he
should write";
yaktub,
jussive (مَجْزُومٌ majzūm,
literally meaning 'clipped off'),
means 'let...
- yidḵul يَدْخُل yadḵul يَدْخِل yadḵil "he writes" يَكْتُبُ
yaktub يِكْتُب
yiktub يَكْتِب
yaktub يَكْتِب
yaktib or يْكَتِب
ykatib "she sits" تَقْعُد taqʿud...
- "they wrote" (feminine) katabnā كَتَبْنَا or كتبنا "we wrote" (f and m)
yaktub(u) يَكْتُب or يكتب "he writes" (masculine) taktub(u) تَكْتُب or تكتب "she...
- position. The
retention of the
vowel a in the
prefixes of the imperfect, e.g.
yaktub ‘he writes’ as
against the
taltala in
other dialects. The
tribe of Huḏayl...
