Present Tense (1st Group)

Moroccan verbs can be grouped into three conjugation classes. The first conugation class or group consists of all verbs composed from 3 consonants or more ( except those which end with a vowel).
The verbs in this conjugation, which together constitute the great majority of Moroccan verbs, are all conjugated similarly, though there are a number of verbs with slight changes arising from orthographical and especially phonological considerations!
Tenses are designated by a variety of prefixes and suffixes.Most verbs are regular and follow the pattern detailed below:

ana ne-verb ;

nta te-verb ;

nti t-verb-i ;

huwa ye-verb ;

hiya te-verb ;

7na n-verv-u ;

ntuma t-verb-u ;

huma y-verb-u

Example

Imperfective (Present Tense)
kteb كتب - To Write
Pronouns	Singular	Plural
ana 7na	nekteb نكتب I write	nketbu نكتبو We write
nta ntuma	tekteb تكتب You write (m)	tketbu تكتبو You write
nti ntuma	tketbi تكتبي You write (f)
huwa huma	yekteb يكتب He writes	yketbu يكتبو They write
hiya huma	tekteb تكتب She writes

N.B :

• Letters in red are the prefixes and suffixes appropriate to the Present Tense!
• The "e" is used here to help with the pronounciation. It can be droped.

Once you learned how to conjugate verbs of the 1st group you can practice with these ones and at the same time you'll enrich your vocabulary. Good luck!

Dreb (to hit)
hreb (to run away)
shreb (to drink)
khTeb ( to get engaged)
dkhel (to enter)
khrej ( to get out, leave)
n3es (to sleep)
rkeb (to ride)
shTe7 (to dance)
fhem (to understand)
3ref (to know)

kdeb (to lie)
khdem (to work)
fTer (to have breakfast)

Tleb (to ask for something)
hDer (to speak/talk)

sedd (to close) nsedd; tsedd; tseddi; ysedd; tsedd; nseddu; tseddu; yseddu

7ell (to open)

reDD (to pay back/ give back/answer back/throw up..)

shekk ( to suspect/to doubt)

jerr (to grab/to pull)

3eDD (to bite)

khTar (to choose) nkhTar; tkhTar; tkhTari; yekhTar; tkhTar; nkhTaru; tkhTaru; ykhTaru

Sift, (to send)

jawb (to answer)

3awn (to help)
Sawb (to fix)

Safer (to travel)
same7 (to forgive)

tferrej (to watch) : netferrej, ttferrej, ttferrji, yetferrej, ttferrej, ntferrju, ttferrju, yetferrju

tkellem (to speak/talk)
t3ellem (to learn)
tzewwej ( to get married)

Teyyeb (to cook)
sewwel (to ask)

9elleb ( to search)

Pronounciation