Arabic verbs (الأفْعالُ ) may be in the perfect tense or the imperfect tense.
The perfect denotes a completed action and is equivalent to the past tense.
The imperfect may denote an incomplete action, equivalent to the present tense, or an action that has not started yet, equivalent to the future tense.
Arabic verbs have three moods:
Arabic verbs also have two voices:
The root of a verb consists of three (or four) consonants.
Example: the root of the verb (to write) is ك ت ب .
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