colloquial #Arabic has a verb just like this ... what is it?
https://twitter.com/dannybate4/status/1339614080345272321
جاب ~ يجيب gāb / yigīb "to bring"
is historically the verb جاء "come" followed by the preposition بـ bi- "with"!
Classical:
جاء بالكتاب jā'a bi-l-kitābi
"he came with the 📖"
Egyptian:
جاب الكتاب gāb il-kitāb
"he brought the 📖"
if you *come with* something, you *bring* it.
is historically the verb جاء "come" followed by the preposition بـ bi- "with"!
Classical:
جاء بالكتاب jā'a bi-l-kitābi
"he came with the 📖"
Egyptian:
جاب الكتاب gāb il-kitāb
"he brought the 📖"
if you *come with* something, you *bring* it.
it's rather transparent when the subject is "he", as above, or in the imperfect tense:
أجيء بالقلم 'ajī'(u) bi-l-qalami
"I'm coming with the 🖋"
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أجيب القلم agīb il-2alam
"I'll the 🖋"
...
أجيء بالقلم 'ajī'(u) bi-l-qalami
"I'm coming with the 🖋"
⬇️
أجيب القلم agīb il-2alam
"I'll the 🖋"
...
but things get weird when you have a consonant btwn the ج and the ب:
جئتُ بالقلم ji'tu bi-l-qalami
"I came with the 🖋"
⬇️
جبت القلم gibt il-2alam
notice how the /b/ has been fully incorporated into the verb root, & now precedes the suffix /-t/!
جئتُ بالقلم ji'tu bi-l-qalami
"I came with the 🖋"
⬇️
جبت القلم gibt il-2alam
notice how the /b/ has been fully incorporated into the verb root, & now precedes the suffix /-t/!
this is the same thing with DON and DOFF in English.
in the sentence "i don my hat," you can think of it as "i do-on (= put-on) my hat."
but "i donned my hat" is only possible once DON has been reinterpreted as its own separate verb; "i do-on-ed my hat" makes no sense.
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in the sentence "i don my hat," you can think of it as "i do-on (= put-on) my hat."
but "i donned my hat" is only possible once DON has been reinterpreted as its own separate verb; "i do-on-ed my hat" makes no sense.
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