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How do you say/write "I forget" and "I come/bring"? ?انس/اتي Or do we need another alif somewhere?

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I forget is (ansaa أنسى) and the past tense of it is (nasiya نسي). I come is (aatee آتي) and the past tense of it is (ataa أتى). Notice that (آتي) starts with (آ) which is a double (ا) and this is because the past tense already has an (alef ا) at the beginning so when you add the (ا) to indicate it is (I) who is coming then you get two (alef) after each other.

Hope you see the point.

Thanks Ehab; clear and helpful explanations as always.

Addars mumtaaz,shukran!Now I'm ready to invite an Arabic friend. Or someone invite me please! lol

By the way,lately I wonder about female version,about 'n=noon' sound at the end of a verb. In this lesson,Ehab is saying 'tasta6ee3een'and 'laa tansee'. I have some difficulty about why some verb put 'n' at the end and some don't..
tosba7eena al7'ayl
law sama7ty
etc.

Is there a rule about it?

Thanks in advance.

Fyi,the name of Taj Mahal took after the name of the third wife,'Mumtaz Mahal',like Ehab said. I didn't know that she had died during the birth of her 14th(!) child and in Islamic teaching at that time,a woman who died in giving birth was concidered as a holy martyr. It was very interesting to know historical,religious background.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

Kurumi, you are nearly there. (La tansee) is an order (la tansee means don't forget), so the rule in simple terms is if you are doing an order then you drop the (n). Examples:

Will you go with me? هل ستذهبين معي؟
Go to the market إذهبي الى السوق
Don't go to the market لا تذهبي الى السوق

Hope these examples make it clear.

@Ehab

Shukran laka, ana fahimtu.^^ Maybe I should go over again on imperatives.

About the word,' faa6'y',I couldn' t find it on google translate nor my dictionary. But I find another interesting usage on it ,it was used like 'useless,meaningless words:al kelaam alfaa6'y'.it seems like an informal one though.

Yes Kurumi, very odd that Google didn't translate (فاضي). The phrase (kalaam faa9'y كلام فاضي) is very often used in the street or more often when you hear someone talking "rubbish" on the TV, so people say (كلام فاضي) which is like (useless talk) or literally (empty talk).

Can you say نعم أنا فارغ مساء يوم الخميس؟

MoGreen88, you could use similar word which is (mutafarri3' متفرغ) which gives the same meaning as (فاضي) and is more suitable than (فارغ).