fajjar

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Maltese

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Root
f-j-r
2 terms

Etymology

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Borrowed from English to fire, eventually from Proto-Germanic *fōr. Said in several sources to be the only loan verb from English that is morphologically fully integrated.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fajjar (imperfect jfajjar, past participle mfajjar, verbal noun tfajjir)

  1. to hurl
  2. to throw about (words, e.g. swearwords)

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of fajjar
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m fajjart fajjart fajjar fajjarna fajjartu fajru
f fajret
imperfect m nfajjar tfajjar jfajjar nfajru tfajru jfajru
f tfajjar
imperative fajjar fajru