LessonsActive Participles: Definition, Patterns, Paradigms and DerivationQuiz

Past and imperfect verbs were learned in fourteen person forms, because a finite verb encodes grammatical person as well as number and gender.
The active participle is a noun. Its listed paradigm shows six forms: masculine/feminine crossed with singular/dual/plural.
يَكْتُبُ — he writes.
كَاتِبٌ — a writer.
There is no special first-person row in this noun table; the speaker may use the noun in a suitable sentence.

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Why the noun has six forms

Active Participles: Definition, Patterns, Paradigms and Derivation

Past and imperfect verbs were learned in fourteen person forms, because a finite verb encodes grammatical person as well as number and gender.
The active participle is a noun. Its listed paradigm shows six forms: masculine/feminine crossed with singular/dual/plural.
يَكْتُبُ — he writes.
كَاتِبٌ — a writer.
There is no special first-person row in this noun table; the speaker may use the noun in a suitable sentence.