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THE IMPERATIVE in Arabic
The imperative is formed from the jussive but, since it begins with two consonants, it takes a short prosthetic vowel. In the triliteral verb, the prosthetic "alif, when the second radical takes fatha or kasra, the vowrl is kasra, when it takes damma, it is damma, as the following table shows: