The present tense

The present tense adds a prefix, and sometimes a suffix: أكتب (I write), تكتب (you write, or she writes), يكتب (he writes), نكتب (we write), يكتبون (they write).

The prefixes are the letters of أنيت: أ for I, ن for we, ي for he and they, ت for you and she. The hamza of أ sits on the alif.

سـ or سوف before the present makes a future: سأكتب, سوف نسافر. لا negates the present: لا أعرف.