A Completed Event

Level 2

Ħriġt, ħareġ, ħarġet and ħarġu differ in agreement and stem shape.

How It Works

The perfect commonly describes a completed past event in an independent statement. It agrees with the subject in person and number, distinguishing gender in third-person singular. First- and second-person singular can share one form.

For ħareġ, learn ħriġt ‘I/you singular went out’, ħareġ ‘he went out’, ħarġet ‘she went out’, ħriġna ‘we went out’, ħriġtu ‘you plural went out’, and ħarġu ‘they went out’. Masculine singular has no added person suffix here; other forms change the stem as well as the ending.

Compare explicit jien ħriġt with inti ħriġt: the pronoun resolves person. Auxiliaries can place completion before a past or future reference point, so the perfect is not restricted to simple past translation.

Examples (3)

  1. Jien ħriġt wara l-ikel.

    I went out after the meal.

    Jien resolves the shared singular form.

  2. Intom ħriġtu flimkien.

    You went out together.

    -tu marks second-person plural.

  3. Il-bniet ħarġu kmieni.

    The girls went out early.

    Ħarġu agrees with a third-person plural subject.

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A Completed EventLevel 2

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Teach completed-event agreement through the complete ħareġ paradigm, including its unsuffixed masculine singular and changed stems, while leaving time interpretation to the clause.

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