jaf
Maltese edit
| Root |
|---|
| għ-r-f |
| 9 terms |
Etymology edit
From Arabic يَعْرِفُ (yaʕrifu), imperfect of عَرَفَ (ʕarafa, “to know, get to know, find out”). Doublet of uncontracted għaraf (“to recognise, become aware of, find out”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
jaf (imperfect only)
- to know; to be able to do sth.
- Ma nafx.
- I don't know.
- Ma kienx jaf li wasalna.
- He didn't know that we'd arrived.
- Ma nafx jekk huwa jkunx reliġjuż.
- I don't know whether [or not] he's religious.
Conjugation edit
- The verb is defective and has no perfect forms. The perfect tense is expressed with forms of kien followed by the imperfect forms.
| Conjugation of jaf | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | kont naf | kont taf | kien jaf | konna nafu | kontu tafu | kienu jafu | |
| f | kienet taf | |||||||
| imperfect | m | naf | taf | jaf | nafu | tafu | jafu | |
| f | taf | |||||||
| imperative | kun af | kunu afu | ||||||
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Noun edit
jaf n (plural jafuri)