. والله لا فعلن . .It is an emphatic affirmative .1

سرير .2 ا حملن سیرک .It is a forcible imperative. Ex

Mas.

Fem. Com. Mas. Fem. Com. Mas. Fem. Com.

Pers.

The single nun et toukid is only admissible in the persons of the Singular Number and in the Masculine and Common Plural. The Present is then conjugated

The Imperative when conjugated with nun et toukid assumes the following forms:

The Arabs convert the Active Voice into the Passive by changing the vowels, and retaining the letters of the Active, or by using one of the Derivative Conjugations to be noticed below.

The Rule for the vowels in the Passive Voice is to change the vowel of the 1st Radical into dammah, and that of the second into kesrah in the Past Tense,

-and to change the vowel of the ser ,ضرب ضرب Ex

vile prefixed into dammah, and the vowel of the 2nd

. يضرب يضرب Radical into fethah in the Present, Ex

The Passive Participle is formed from the root by pre

regard must be had to the Permutation of the Weak Letters. The effect of this law of Permutation will be seen in the Paradigm of the Passive Voice.

The use of the Active Voice is much preferred by the Arabs to that of the Passive, which in common lanis somewhat rare.

guage

It may be observed with reference to its construction that a Transitive Verb, which in the Active governs a Dative of the Person and an Accusative of the thing or a double Accusative, admits in the Passive an Accusative after it, thus: The king entrusted the command to

بادی

السلطان أوتى ابنه his son, expressed passively would be

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, The king, his son was entrusted with the command.

OF THE REGULAR PRIMITIVE QUADRILITERAL.

For this Verb there is only one Conjugation; it has a fethah over the first and third Radicals in the Past, a fethah over the first and a kesrah under the third Radical in the Present, the second is jezmated in both cases, and the servile prefix of the Present is dammated.

EXAMPLE.

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.To bribe برطل يبرطل