Indicative Past

The past tense describes an action that started and ended in the past. It formed by adding a suffix to the past stem.

Examples:

English	+ suffix	Arabic
I wrote	تُ+	كَتَبْتُ
You wrote (masculine singular)	تَ+	كَتَبْتَ
You wrote (feminine singular)	تِ+	كَتَبْتِ
He wrote	َ+	كَتَبَ
She wrote	تْ+	كَتَبَتْ
We wrote	نا+	كَتَبْنا
You wrote (dual)	تُما+	كَتَبْتُما
You wrote (masculine plural)	تُمْ+	كَتَبْتُمْ
You wrote (feminine plural)	تُنَّ+	كَتَبْتُنَّ
They wrote, dual	ا+	كَتَبا
They wrote (masculine plural)	وا+	كَتَبوا
They wrote (feminine plural)	نَ+	كَتَبْنَ