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Arāda / yurīd Conjugation

أَرَادَ / يُرِيدُ (arāda / yurīd) means "to to want" in Arabic. Simplest present: أنا (ana) أُرِيد (urīd), أنتَ (anta) تُرِيد (turīd), أنتِ (anti) تُرِيدِين (turīdīn), هو (huwa) يُرِيد (yurīd), هي (hiya) تُرِيد (turīd), نحن (naḥnu) نُرِيد (nurīd). Below: all 3 tenses we teach, with examples.

Simplest present المضارع (al-muḍāri‘)

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)أُرِيد (urīd)
أنتَ (anta)تُرِيد (turīd)
أنتِ (anti)تُرِيدِين (turīdīn)
هو (huwa)يُرِيد (yurīd)
هي (hiya)تُرِيد (turīd)
نحن (naḥnu)نُرِيد (nurīd)
أنتم (antum)تُرِيدُون (turīdūn)
هم (hum)يُرِيدُون (yurīdūn)

Simplest past الماضي (al-māḍī)

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)أَرَدْتُ (aradtu)
أنتَ (anta)أَرَدْتَ (aradta)
أنتِ (anti)أَرَدْتِ (aradti)
هو (huwa)أَرَادَ (arāda)
هي (hiya)أَرَادَتْ (arādat)
نحن (naḥnu)أَرَدْنَا (aradnā)
أنتم (antum)أَرَدْتُمْ (aradtum)
هم (hum)أَرَادُوا (arādū)

Simplest future المستقبل (al-mustaqbal)

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)سَأُرِيد (sa-urīd)
أنتَ (anta)سَتُرِيد (sa-turīd)
أنتِ (anti)سَتُرِيدِين (sa-turīdīn)
هو (huwa)سَيُرِيد (sa-yurīd)
هي (hiya)سَتُرِيد (sa-turīd)
نحن (naḥnu)سَنُرِيد (sa-nurīd)
أنتم (antum)سَتُرِيدُون (sa-turīdūn)
هم (hum)سَيُرِيدُون (sa-yurīdūn)

Examples

أُرِيدُ تَذْكِرَة إِلَى عَمَّان
urīd tadhkira ilā ʿammān
I want a ticket to Amman.
نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَأْكُل هُنَا
nurīd an naʾkul hunā
We want to eat here.

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