How to Conjugate shakara (to thank) in Arabic

شَكَرَ (shakara) means to thank. It is a sound Form I verb from the root ش ك ر (sh-k-r): شَكَرَ (shakara) in the past, يَشْكُرُ (yashkuru) in the present and اُشْكُرْ (ushkur) as a command. The tables below give its full conjugation in all 13 persons, active and passive, vowelled, with its participles and verbal noun.

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

Shakara at a glance

Past tense of shakara

The past tense (al-māḍī) of shakara is one stem, shakar-, plus a suffix that carries the person: شَكَرْتُ (shakartu) for I, شَكَرَتْ (shakarat) for she, شَكَرُوا (shakarū) for they.

Present tense of shakara

The present tense (al-muḍāriʿ) of shakara has u in the stem, -shkur-, which no rule predicts: أَشْكُرُ (ashkuru) for I, يَشْكُرُ (yashkuru) for he, يَشْكُرُونَ (yashkurūna) for they.

Subjunctive and jussive of shakara

The subjunctive and the jussive of shakara change only the ending of the present: يَشْكُرُ (yashkuru) becomes يَشْكُرَ (yashkura) after لن (lan, will not) and يَشْكُرْ (yashkur) after لم (lam, did not).

Imperative of shakara

The command (al-amr) is the jussive تَشْكُرْ (tashkur) without its prefix, with a connecting alif (hamzat al-waṣl) in front that is pronounced only when the command starts a sentence: اُشْكُرْ (ushkur) to one man, اُشْكُرِي (ushkurī) to one woman, اُشْكُرُوا (ushkurū) to a group.

Passive of shakara

The passive of shakara keeps the consonants and changes the vowels: u and i in the past (شُكِرَ (shukira)), the prefix yu- and a before the last root letter in the present (يُشْكَرُ (yushkaru)).

Participles and verbal noun of shakara

The active participle follows the pattern fāʿil: شَاكِر (shākir). The passive participle follows mafʿūl: مَشْكُور (mashkūr). Form I verbal nouns follow no single pattern, and Wiktionary lists two for shakara: شُكْر (shukr), شُكْرَان (shukrān). Learn them with the verb, or look them up under sh-k-r in one of the dictionaries in our guide.

Why shakara conjugates this way

The root letters of شَكَرَ (shakara), ش ك ر (sh-k-r), 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. Naẓara (to look) and kharaja (to go out, to leave) share its vowels, a in the past and u in the present.

Shakara in sentences

شكر زيري ابنه.
Ziri thanked his son.
The verb: شَكَرَ (shakara), past, he. Source: Tatoeba sentence 11612933 by dididodo (CC BY 2.0 FR), unvowelled as published.

ينبغي أن يشكر توم ماري.
Tom should thank Mary.
The verb: يَشْكُرَ (yashkura), subjunctive, he. Source: Tatoeba sentence 10515372 by Amghar (CC BY 2.0 FR), unvowelled as published.

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