| Before the imperfect tenseverbs to negate the happening of an action in the imperfect past | Before the imperfect tenseverbs to negate the happening of an action in the perfect past |
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| Zaid did not neglect his duty |
Like other languages, negation in Arabic is the process of turning an affirmative statement into its contrary or of denying something by adding a word of negation to the affirmative statement.
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