Language/Standard-arabic/Grammar/THE-IMPERATIVE

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:

Sources

http://anacereddine.com/Arabic_Grammar___Exercises.PDF

Related Lessons

• Negations
• Conditional Mood
• RELATIVE PRONOUNS
• DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
• THE USE OF THE AFFIXED PERSONAL PRONOUNS
• Conjugation of the verb to write in the perfect
• Apologies
• AFFIXED PERSONAL PRONOUNS
• Negation
• THE PERFECT