FuSHa to Shami Series #7: Past Tense Verbs

Editor’s Note & Disclaimer: The core content and linguistic structure of this lesson were originally authored by Chris Hitchcock for the Team Maha website. This post is part of an effort to preserve, organize, and share these invaluable resources for Arabic learners worldwide. The past tense in Levantine Arabic (Shami) is structurally very close to FuSHa (Modern Standard Arabic). However, spoken Levantine streamlines the conjugation endings by eliminating duals and feminine plurals, while introducing important colloquial habits for doubled verbs and state verbs.