ACE — Collapsible Rules

ACE supports all 10 classical Arabic verb forms with automatic detection and pattern-based rendering.

• Form I: Basic root meaning (faʕala)
• Form II: Causative / Intensive (faʕʕala)
• Form III: Mutual / Associative (fāʕala)
• Form IV: Causative (afʕala)
• Form V: Reflexive of II (tafaʕʕala)
• Form VI: Reflexive of III (tafāʕala)
• Form VII: Passive / Reflexive (infaʕala)
• Form VIII: Assimilated (iftaʕala)
• Form IX: Colors / Defects (ifʕalla)
• Form X: Seek / Consider (istafʕala)

ACE supports 43 tense categories across:

• Perfect (active/passive)
• Imperfect indicative
• Imperfect subjunctive
• Imperfect jussive
• Imperative & prohibitive
• Light/Heavy emphatics
• Nominal verb derivatives

Each tense automatically selects correct prefixes, suffixes, vowels, voice, and pronoun mapping.

ACE fully supports all 14 standard Arabic pronouns for conjugation.

• هو — he
• هما — they (dual)
• هم — they (m)
• هن — they (f)
• أنتَ — you (m)
• أنتِ — you (f)
• أنتما — you two
• أنتم — you (m plural)
• أنتن — you (f plural)
• أنا — I
• نحن — we

ACE classifies weak verbs automatically:

• Assimilated (w/y as first radical): وصل، وقـى
• Hollow (middle radical weak): قال، باع
• Defective (final radical weak): دعا، رمى
• Doubly weak: وقى، وشى

Special rules apply for shortening, vowel collapse, deletion, and assimilation.

ACE includes a full Tajweed color engine:

• Throat letters — ء هـ ع ح غ خ
• Qalqalah — ق ط ب ج د
• Tafkhīm — ص ض ط ظ ق
• Shaddah handling
• Sukūn insertion rules
• Idghām, Ikhfā’, Iqlāb logic

Colors appear in Arabic, Latin, and IPA views.

ACE uses layer-based root detection:

1. Strip prefixes (ya-, ta-, sa-, sawfa-, lam-, lan- etc.)
2. Strip suffixes (perfect, imperfect, pronoun endings)
3. Normalize vowels, gemination, digraphs
4. Match triliteral roots
5. Fallback through Form II–X patterns

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