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Arabic Hebrew Conjugation

This document provides information on conjugations in Arabic and Hebrew. It lists the past (perfective) conjugations for the verb "to write" in Arabic and Biblical Hebrew. It also lists the present participles and present/future (imperfective) conjugations for both languages. The conjugations are provided for each person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and number (singular, plural, feminine, masculine).

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Arabic Hebrew Conjugation

This document provides information on conjugations in Arabic and Hebrew. It lists the past (perfective) conjugations for the verb "to write" in Arabic and Biblical Hebrew. It also lists the present participles and present/future (imperfective) conjugations for both languages. The conjugations are provided for each person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and number (singular, plural, feminine, masculine).

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Arabic and Hebrew conjugations

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Semitic stops geminate, simple, lenited (ba kfa)
geminate -CCsimple #Clenited -C-

bb dd

Arabic
ff tt kk

bb dd gg
b d g
v

Hebrew
pp tt
p t
f

kk
k
x

3sm
3sf
2sm
2sf
1s
3pm
3pf
2pm
2pf
1p

Arabic kataba write


Biblical Hebrew kav write
Past (perfective, suffix conjugation)
Formal
Colloquial
ktaba
ktab
kv
ktabat
ktabat/-it
kvh
katbta
katbt
kvt
katbti
katbti
kvt
katbtu
katbt
kvt
ktb
ktabu
kv
katbna
(ktaban)
(= 3pm kv )
katbtum
katbtu
kvtm > kvtm
katabtnna (katbtan)
kvtn > kvtn
ktbn
katbna
kvn

ms
fs
mp
fp

Present participle (Hebrew > Present)


ktibun (NOM) / -in (GEN) / -an (ACC)
kov
ktibtun (NOM) / -tin (GEN) / -tan (ACC)
kovh, kov
a
a

ktibn (NOM) / ktibn (GEN/ACC)


kovm
un
in
ktibt (NOM) / ktibt (GEN/ACC)
kov

3sm
3sf
2sm
2sf
1s
3pm
3pf
2pm
2pf
1p

Present/Future (imperfective, prefix conjugation) (Hebrew > Future)


Formal
Colloquial
yktubu
yktub, yktub, yktib, etc.
yixtv
tktubu
tktub
tixtv
tktubu
tktub
tixtv
taktubn a
tktubi
tixtv
ktubu
ktub
extv
yaktub na
yktubu
yixtv
yaktbna
(yktuban)
tixtvnh
taktub na
tktubu
tixtv
taktbna
(tktuban)
tixtvnh
nktubu
nktub
nixtv

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