ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Arabic verbs

Okay kiddo, let me explain Arabic verbs in a really simple way.

Arabic is a language that has a lot of different words to describe actions that someone does. These words are called "verbs". Like when you say "I play with my toys" - the word "play" is a verb that describes the action of playing.

In Arabic, every verb has three parts that change depending on who is doing the action (the person), when they are doing it (the tense), and how many people are doing it (singular or plural).

Let me give you an example. The word "to eat" in Arabic is "yakul". If I want to say "I eat", I would say "ana akul" - "ana" means "I" and "akul" means "eat".

But if I wanted to say "he eats", I would say "huwa yakul" - "huwa" means "he" and "yakul" is the same word for "eat" but it changed a little bit to show that it's talking about "he" instead of "I".

It's kind of like when we add "s" to the end of a verb in English to show that someone else is doing the action, like "he walks" instead of "I walk".

Overall, Arabic verbs are just special words that change their form depending on who is doing the action, when they're doing it, and how many people are doing it. It's like a secret code that helps Arabs talk about actions in a really specific way!