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hashrab
you will drink (m sing)
hatishrab
verb stem -shrab I will drink HOW
hatishrabee you will drink (f sing)
hīshrab he will drink THE
hatishrab she will drink
hanishrab we will drink
hatishraboo you will drink (pl)
hīshraboo they will drink LANGUAGE
Perfect Tense
The perfect tense is used to indicate completed action in the
in English. Therefore, ‘ana kallimtoo’ translates as ‘I spoke to
him’ or ‘I have spoken to him’ depending on the context.
The perfect tense is formed by adding suffixes to the third
person masculine singular form.
past. It is the equivalent of the simple past and the perfect tense WORKS
below: ■
verb stem katab-
suffix
Most verbs follow the pattern of the perfect conjugation Ve r b s
-t katabt I wrote, I have written
-t katabt you wrote, you have written (m sing)
-tee katabtee you wrote, you have written (f sing)
katab he wrote, he has written
-it katabit she wrote, she has written
-na katabna we wrote, we have written
-too katabtoo you wrote, you have written (pl)
-oo kataboo they wrote, you have written
Exceptions are the verbs ‘give’, ‘like’ and ‘put’. For these,
remove -ayt from the forms in the perfect column on pages
272-273 to obtain the verb stem and then add the following
suffixes:

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