Passive tense¶

So far, we've been seeing the active tense, مَعْرُوْف , e.g. "he is doing". There's also مُجْهُوْل , the passive tense e.g. "it is being done". There's also pronouns, ضَمِيْر , which we'll see in the next section Pronouns.

Recapping this as bulletpoints:

• مَعْرُوْف - active tense e.g. "he is doing".
• مُجْهُوْل - passive tense e.g. "it is being done"
• ضَمِيْر - pronouns e.g. "he"

To make a verb be in the passive tense, just change it like e.g. from فَعَلَ <- فُعِلَ , or from سَمِعَ <- سُمِعَ . i.e. it always goes to بُبِبَ for the harakah, for all 6 باب.

For the present/future tense, the rule is يَضْرِبُ <- يُضْرَبُ and again, always applies (note of course both these rules are for thulaathee mujarrad).

To recap, فَعَلَ would change to:

• فُعِلَ - "it was done"
• يُفْعَلُ - "it is/will be done"

For example, you might say ضُرِبَ اَلْرَجُلُ , "the man was hit".