The Present Tense Verb (Form 1)

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[@giv7125]

Hey man, as a Palestinian who doesn't speak Arabic very well I am happy that you are creating this content. Keep it up man I will watch and study everything! Hopefully you can bring me on a proper level.

[@PalWebTV]

ohh that's so wonderful to hear !! i really hope it helps & feel free any time to drop a question or a suggestion for a topic i should cover :)

[@giv7125]

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[@أحمد-ر8ح6د]

You look hispanic and Arab but you sound totally American. Where are you from?

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i'm Colombian 🇨🇴

[@SASHA-wv2ls]

I just finished the video. This is by FAR the best resource I have seen for learning Arabic grammar at your own pace! Have you talked about the plurals of nouns in a video yet?

[@PalWebTV]

thank you so much !! i haven’t talked about it & i’m not sure if i will since it’s very irregular & the plurals are exactly the same in amiya ... if people want me to address it though i certainly can

[@SASHA-wv2ls]

@@PalWebTV Oh, that's just me then because I haven't learned fusha and I'm learning dialect with my teacher so we'll get to it eventually. I just meant if it was something super simple like adding 's' or 'es' in Spanish, but if it's super complicated then don't bother. Thank you though!

[@SASHA-wv2ls]

I always come here anxious, but as soon as I see Adrian's face, my day turns around! 😂 Thanks Adrian!

[@PGY2000]

I know I am late but, I still don't understand why it is that Forms AA and AW end differently, is it just cause? Like what about them in their first form cues for what makes it AA and AW. For clarification is there anything in the original "past" form in maza7a that would tell you its present conjugation is going to have a fatha in it?

[@breezyfbb]

I have the exact same question! Came to the comments to see if anyone else was confused on this

[@aladdina23]

Watching these for the second time as a refresher! I think I didn’t pay as much attention my first time around as I should have so I’m enjoying sitting down and really paying attention and can already see the difference in my comprehension! Great job!

[@garrettrye6951]

At 20:35 the word you’re looking for is a subjunctive construction, and the name of the form itself is the subjunctive mood correct?

[@ahmedrifayi8257]

Awesome brother, very comprehensive video

[@traveleverywhere1]

This is good stuff. Explained better than I have ever seen it done before.

[@rubenvaldes7392]

Great videos, man!

[@abdito721]

IT IS ACTYUALLY ALEF MAQSURAH

[@MumblingManuscript]

Fantastic videos. I would just add that for first person plural, both م /ب can be used, but varies in usage in different areas of the Levant

[@sacamain0]

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[@gastonmartinez6316]

This is such a great video!! Just a few questions about things that got confusing for me: 1-you said قرا can be written asقرى, therefore being in the same category as مشى, but the latter gets its alif maksura changed to ي whereas قرا stays with the alif. 2- In Sound verbs, there could be one more form, If I'm not wrong. Like نزل, which carries qazra in both past and present. These were the things that remained unresolved in my head after the video. Could you please confirm or deny this?

[@PalWebTV]

1. that's correct. i think i was trying to show that in term of its root QARA is exactly like MASHA except that it's spelled differently for etymological reasons. however in term of its voweling it's like MAZA7 (MAZA7 -> BAMZA7 versus QARA -> BAQRA). 2. that's correct although i don't think NIZEL specifically works like this. one example is 3IMEL -> BI3MEL. that said the reality is that many verbs may fall into different conjugation patterns depending on the area or speaker so while for me NIZEL is I/A maybe for some people it's I/I (but again i don't think i've heard that personally). one example i can definitely confirm is that 3IREF (like 3IMEL) is I/I for me (i.e. 3IREF -> BI3REF) however i definitely know others use an I/A pattern (3IREF -> BI3RAF). it can occur with other types of verbs as well - e.g. for me 7ABB is A/I (7ABB -> BI7EBB) but for some people it's A/O (7ABB -> BI7OBB).

[@gastonmartinez6316]

@@PalWebTV Thank you!!! كنت اتعلم اللهجة المصرية ويمكن هادا السبب ههه. لكن نعم، شفت إنه بيغيروها احيانا 😵🤷🏻‍♂ شكرا على إجابتك!

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of course

[@IzdSammy]

A very interesting and worthwhile to watch video. The subject indeed can seem super-difficult and complex at first, and I actually almost lost all hope about the different categories of verbs until the author said the following (with his eyes rolling about the Modern Standard Arabic-verb vowel-rules): "Actually this is a huge simplication from Fusha, because in Fusha, you have a bunch of different [vowel] combinations, and it just makes it a nightmare to really learn".

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[@glassoftruth5594]

I love Palestine. I love Palestinians, but then I decided to learn Egyptian dialect since it has more learning resources and it's a lot easier to find Egyptian through language exchange app. And now I have no idea why I'm watching your video 👍😂 keep going brother. I think I'd like to learn the Egyptian dialect along with the Palestinian dialect even though I know that it will cause my brain to boil 🇵🇸🇮🇩 Greeting from Indonesia

[@christiansinger2497]

Great video! I've been looking for this type of grammar content about colloquial arabic specifically.

[@miguelandahmadgomez-ahmat4776]

مرحبا Adrián. شكرا كتير كتير. Me has hecho entender mejor esa "maraña" que ex el verbo árabe. Y me encanta que seas colombiano. Si alguna vez vienes por Miami me encantaría invitarte almorzar o a cenar. Again, thank you so much for your videos and your dedication to all of us wanting to learn Ammiyah. يعطيك العافية. ألله يسعدك ويخليلي اياك Miguel

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I love your logic. Makes it so much easier

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[@UmarB97]

Hey Adrian, apologies for the spam comments. I'm working through these now and really enjoying them. Did you end up making the video on "the present route verbs"? Could you point me towards it if you have? ألف شكر

[@PalWebTV]

hey Umar i'm not really sure what you mean ... you mean the other root types ? in my videos on the past tense & the imperative i talk about the other root types ...

[@UmarB97]

@@PalWebTV sorry I wasn't really clear. You mentioned in 3amiyeh there are times you would use verbs as you would in fus7a. For example aktub rather than baktub. You said you were gonna expand on it in a future video

[@PalWebTV]

@@UmarB97 ohhhhh yea that type of use is called the subjunctive ... i actually refer to it in tons of my videos but i think the first / only dedicated explanation is in my video on expressing Desire & the Future kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJSzpWukoKiHh9k

[@UmarB97]

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[@underageguru]

You explain so fast it is impossible to grasp the grammar