How to Conjugate kharaja (to go out, to leave) in Arabic

خَرَجَ (kharaja) means to go out, to leave. It is a sound Form I verb from the root خ ر ج (kh-r-j): خَرَجَ (kharaja) in the past, يَخْرُجُ (yakhruju) in the present and اُخْرُجْ (ukhruj) as a command. The tables below give its full conjugation in all 13 persons and its impersonal passive, vowelled, with its participles and verbal noun.

Every form of kharaja on this page comes from the engine behind our Arabic verb conjugator and was checked against Wiktionary's conjugation table for خَرَجَ, which is also the source of its verbal noun.

Kharaja at a glance

Past tense of kharaja

The past tense (al-māḍī) of kharaja is one stem, kharaj-, plus a suffix that carries the person: خَرَجْتُ (kharajtu) for I, خَرَجَتْ (kharajat) for she, خَرَجُوا (kharajū) for they.

Present tense of kharaja

The present tense (al-muḍāriʿ) of kharaja has u in the stem, -khruj-, which no rule predicts: أَخْرُجُ (akhruju) for I, يَخْرُجُ (yakhruju) for he, يَخْرُجُونَ (yakhrujūna) for they.

Subjunctive and jussive of kharaja

The subjunctive and the jussive of kharaja change only the ending of the present: يَخْرُجُ (yakhruju) becomes يَخْرُجَ (yakhruja) after لن (lan, will not) and يَخْرُجْ (yakhruj) after لم (lam, did not).

Imperative of kharaja

The command (al-amr) is the jussive تَخْرُجْ (takhruj) without its prefix, with a connecting alif (hamzat al-waṣl) in front that is pronounced only when the command starts a sentence: اُخْرُجْ (ukhruj) to one man, اُخْرُجِي (ukhrujī) to one woman, اُخْرُجُوا (ukhrujū) to a group.

Passive of kharaja

The passive of kharaja keeps the consonants and changes the vowels: u and i in the past (خُرِجَ (khurija)), the prefix yu- and a before the last root letter in the present (يُخْرَجُ (yukhraju)). Wiktionary lists the passive of kharaja as impersonal: only the he-form is used, without a subject of its own.

Participles and verbal noun of kharaja

The active participle follows the pattern fāʿil: خَارِج (khārij). The passive participle follows mafʿūl: مَخْرُوج (makhrūj). Form I verbal nouns follow no single pattern, so خُرُوج (khurūj) has to be learned with the verb, or looked up under kh-r-j in one of the dictionaries in our guide.

Why kharaja conjugates this way

The root letters of خَرَجَ (kharaja), خ ر ج (kh-r-j), are all strong consonants, with no w, y or hamza and no letter repeated, so nothing in its conjugation changes shape. What has to be learned is the pair of stem vowels: a in the past and u in the present, which no rule predicts. Akala (to eat) and akhadha (to take) share its vowels, a in the past and u in the present.

Kharaja in sentences

خرجت معها.
I went outside with her.
The verb: خَرَجْتُ (kharajtu), past, I. Source: Tatoeba sentence 12015005 by dididodo (CC BY 2.0 FR), unvowelled as published.

أرادت أن تخرج.
She wanted to go out.
The verb: تَخْرُجَ (takhruja), subjunctive, she. Source: Tatoeba sentence 11648260 by dididodo (CC BY 2.0 FR), unvowelled as published.

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