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Arabic · Verb Tables · Basic
عَرَفَ ('arafa) means "to to know" in Arabic. Present: أنا (ana) أعْرِف [a'rif], أنتَ (anta) تَعْرِف [ta'rif], أنتِ (anti) تَعْرِفين [ta'rifiin], هو (huwa) يَعْرِف [ya'rif], هي (hiya) تَعْرِف [ta'rif], نحن (naḥnu) نَعْرِف [na'rif]. Below: all 1 tenses we teach, with examples.
Prefix (a-, ta-, ya-, na-) + present stem -ktub-, plus -iin for 'you (f.)' and -uun for the plurals. It covers both 'I write' and 'I am writing', and with a time word also the near future.
| أنا (ana) | أعْرِف [a'rif] |
| أنتَ (anta) | تَعْرِف [ta'rif] |
| أنتِ (anti) | تَعْرِفين [ta'rifiin] |
| هو (huwa) | يَعْرِف [ya'rif] |
| هي (hiya) | تَعْرِف [ta'rif] |
| نحن (naḥnu) | نَعْرِف [na'rif] |
| أنتم (antum) | تَعْرِفون [ta'rifuun] |
| هم (hum) | يَعْرِفون [ya'rifuun] |
| لا أعْرِف laa a'rif | I don't know |
| هَل تَعْرِف أيْنَ المَحَطّة؟ hal ta'rif ayna l-mahatta? | Do you know where the station is? |
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