Conjugation › Arabic › ʿamila / yaʿmal
Arabic · Verb Tables · Beginner
عَمِلَ / يَعْمَلُ (ʿamila / yaʿmal) means "to to do / make" in Arabic. Simplest present: أنا (ana) أَعْمَل (aʿmal), أنتَ (anta) تَعْمَل (taʿmal), أنتِ (anti) تَعْمَلِين (taʿmalīn), هو (huwa) يَعْمَل (yaʿmal), هي (hiya) تَعْمَل (taʿmal), نحن (naḥnu) نَعْمَل (naʿmal). Below: all 3 tenses we teach, with examples.
Add a prefix (a-, ta-, ya-, na-) and for 'you (f.)' and the plurals a suffix (-īn, -ūn) to the present stem -ktub. It covers 'I write', 'I am writing' and 'I write every day'; the final -u of formal Arabic is dropped in speech.
| أنا (ana) | أَعْمَل (aʿmal) |
| أنتَ (anta) | تَعْمَل (taʿmal) |
| أنتِ (anti) | تَعْمَلِين (taʿmalīn) |
| هو (huwa) | يَعْمَل (yaʿmal) |
| هي (hiya) | تَعْمَل (taʿmal) |
| نحن (naḥnu) | نَعْمَل (naʿmal) |
| أنتم (antum) | تَعْمَلُون (taʿmalūn) |
| هم (hum) | يَعْمَلُون (yaʿmalūn) |
Add the suffix to the past stem katab-: -tu, -ta, -ti, -a, -at, -nā, -tum, -ū. It is used for any finished action, 'I wrote', 'I have written'; negate with مَا mā (مَا كَتَبْتُ mā katabtu = I didn't write).
| أنا (ana) | عَمِلْتُ (ʿamiltu) |
| أنتَ (anta) | عَمِلْتَ (ʿamilta) |
| أنتِ (anti) | عَمِلْتِ (ʿamilti) |
| هو (huwa) | عَمِلَ (ʿamila) |
| هي (hiya) | عَمِلَتْ (ʿamilat) |
| نحن (naḥnu) | عَمِلْنَا (ʿamilnā) |
| أنتم (antum) | عَمِلْتُمْ (ʿamiltum) |
| هم (hum) | عَمِلُوا (ʿamilū) |
Put سَـ sa- (or the separate word سَوْفَ sawfa) in front of the present form: سَأَكْتُب sa-aktub = I will write. Negate with لَنْ lan + present (لَنْ أَكْتُب lan aktub). Spoken: حَـ ḥa- in Egypt, رَحْ raḥ in the Levant.
| أنا (ana) | سَأَعْمَل (sa-aʿmal) |
| أنتَ (anta) | سَتَعْمَل (sa-taʿmal) |
| أنتِ (anti) | سَتَعْمَلِين (sa-taʿmalīn) |
| هو (huwa) | سَيَعْمَل (sa-yaʿmal) |
| هي (hiya) | سَتَعْمَل (sa-taʿmal) |
| نحن (naḥnu) | سَنَعْمَل (sa-naʿmal) |
| أنتم (antum) | سَتَعْمَلُون (sa-taʿmalūn) |
| هم (hum) | سَيَعْمَلُون (sa-yaʿmalūn) |
| مَاذَا تَعْمَلُ؟ mādhā taʿmal? | What do you do (for work)? |
| مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ اليَوْم؟ mādhā ʿamilta l-yawm? | What did you do today? |
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