Inspired by the song “Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word” by Joan Baez (written by Bob Dylan), here’s a first of a series of posts about verbs in Levantine Arabic titled The Arabic Verb Is Just A Three-Letter Word 😁
In each post, I will demonstrate how just by knowing one verb in its three-letter root form (Form I) will enable you to use the verb in its other forms.
I always thought that it makes more sense to be taught all the verbs from the same root at the same time rather than at different points in the language journey.
The meanings of the verb in its other forms can easily be guessed once you grasp how the 10-verbs form system works.
And I hope to demonstrate that through sentence examples and seeing for yourself the pattern that arises.
This series of posts might be especially useful for those learning Spoken Arabic without any formal background in MSA/Fosha.
So for the first post of an ongoing series, we’ll begin with a simple verb:
عرف
