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Linglib.Fragments.Arabic.ModernStandard.Verbs

Modern Standard Arabic verbs #

The Modern Standard Arabic past tense suffixes to its stem a person marker that also marks number and gender: katab-tu 'I wrote', katab-at 'she wrote', katab-uu 'they (m.) wrote'. Ryding counts thirteen markers. The first person does not mark gender, and the dual has no first person and one marker for both genders of the second.

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def Arabic.ModernStandard.pastSuffix :
Agreement.Paradigm Morphology.Morph

The person markers of the past tense, by person, number and gender, as in Ryding's paradigm of katab- 'wrote' ([Ryd05] p. 443).

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    theorem Arabic.ModernStandard.pastSuffix_gender_eq_bot_iff (c : Agreement.Bundle) :
    c ∈ pastSuffix.cells → (c Agreement.Dimension.gender = ⊥ ↔ c Agreement.Dimension.person = ↑Person.first ∨ c = Agreement.Bundle.personNumber Person.second Number.dual)

    A person marker of the past tense marks gender except in the first person and the second person dual.