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Jussive Mood

The jussive mood ( الْجَزْمُ) has many functions, including negation of the past tense and negation of commands. The jussive mood is similar to the present indicative. It is formed by deleting ن and by adding the diacritic sign "sukuun" ْ over the last letter. In the second and third person feminine plural forms, however, there are no changes.

	Present	Jussive
I	أَكْتُبُ	أَكْتُبَْ
You (masculine singular)	تَكْتُبُ	تَكْتُبْ
You (feminine singular)	تَكْتُبينَ	تَكْتُبي
He	يَكْتُبُ	يَكْتُبَْ
She	تَكْتُبُ	تَكْتُبَْ
We	نَكْتُبُ	نَكْتُبَْ
You (masculine plural)	تَكْتُبونَ	تَكْتُبوا
You (feminine plural)	تَكْتُبْنَ	تَكْتُبْنَ
They (masculine plural)	يَكْتُبونَ	يَكْتُبوا
They (feminine plural)	يَكْتُبْنَ	يَكْتُبْنَ

Pronunciation note: The final ا in the second and third person masculine plural forms is not pronounced.

Jussive particles include: لا لَمْ

Examples:

لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمْ
He did not speak.

لا تُصْغِ
Don't listen.

لَمْ يَقْبَلوا
They did not accept.

For the jussive forms of hollow or defective weak verbs in the present tense forms, the long vowels ي و ا are reduced to their short counterparts:

(أَنْتَ) لَمْ تَزُرْ becomes (أَنْتَ) تَزورُ

(أَنْتَ) تُصْغي becomes (أَنْتَ) لَمْ تُصْغِ

(أَنْتَ) تُرْضي becomes (أَنْتَ) لَمْ تُرْضَ