Verbs in batches

Pick a dialect and learn 50 verbs at once: three forms for “I”, examples, audio and a test at the end.

Learn verbs in batches: see past, present and future at once — “details” opens all pronouns.

Verbs per batch

What the symbols mean
  • aaعdeep throat sound
  • 'ءhamza/glottal stop; ق in Gulf & Iraq = g, in MSA — red q
  • g · jجg — Egypt, j — Levant, Gulf, Iraq, MSA
  • gغred — guttural, like French r
  • s d t zص ض ط ظred — emphatic (heavy) sounds
  • Hحairy — deep throat “H” (blue)
  • khخraspy “kh”, like Scottish “loch”
  • hهplain voiced “h”
  • zذvoiced interdental (like “th” in this); varies z/d by dialect
  • t · thثEgypt — t or s (word-dependent); Gulf/Iraq/MSA — interdental (th)
  • ECAPITAL vowel — stress (bahEbbak)
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