اَمْر¶

امر ("amr") is a third kind of فعل used for commands i.e. when you tell someone to do something. e.g. اِضْرِبْ "Hit!" .

For ثلاثي مجرَّد (i.e. normal 3-letter verbs), you can work out the امر from the present/future tense version of the verb.

For example, to work out the امر for نَصَرَ, we look at the present/future tense, يَنْصُرُ . Then we do the following:

1. Remove the alamaatul mudaari i.e. remove the letters that identify the verb as being mudaari. So in this case, we'd now have نْصُرُ .
2. Add an ا at the beginning. So we'd now have انْصُرُ .
3. If the ع kalima of the فعل has a dhamma, then put a dhamma on the ا . Otherwise, put a kasra on the ا . So in this case, we'd now have اُنْصُرُ .
4. Finally, put a saakin on the last letter. So we now get اُنْصُرْ .

As another example, the amr for فَعَلَ would be اِفْعَلْ .

The main tricky part to remember initially is what i'raab to put on the ا . The way I remember this is with these animations (click on the image to play/pause the animation):

Conjugations¶

Here's the conjugations for امر, along with a suggested order to memorise them.