Arabic verbs?

Question

I know that Arabic verbs are complex, so I'm going to ask your help.
I know that 'he speaks' is تتلكم, 'I speak' is أتكلم but how do I know what is the infinitive? I mean if you know any of the forms, how do you get back to the infinitive. For example, in Italian 'I read' is 'leggo', 'you read' is 'leggi' and I know that the infinitive is 'leggere'. How does infinitive works in Arabic? How do you say 'to speak' in Arabic?

Answer 1

The infinitive verbs in Arabic are called sources and they are treated as nouns: there are standard forms but they're more than those found in Latin languages, you need to know the short vowels or Harakaat to know how the words are pronounced and to tell them apart from other similarly looking words, as for how to form verbs, they do follow a pattern but root letters of verbs alter the long and short vowels which are used to form the verb



To speak:

The source or (infinitive):

التكلم attakallum and كلام Kalaam

He speaks: يتكلم Yatakallamu

She speaks: tatakallumu

You (sing m) : tatakallam

You (sing f) : tatakallameen

You (pl m) : tatakallamoon

You (pl f) tatakallamna

They m: yatakallamoon

They f: yatakallamna

Answer 2

يتكلم He speaks - yatakalam

تتكلم she speaks - tatakalam

يتكلموا A group of people... either all male or some males and females - yatakalamo

يتكلمن Plural for females - yatkalamn

تَكلم He spoke - takalam

تكلمت She spoke - takalamat

تكلُم - the act of speaking - takalom

كلام Ifin - Kalam

Answer 3

Arabic verbs are so complex so anyone cannot understand it very easily.