11. A number of Arabic borrowings in English are actually lexicalized verbal nouns , or closely related forms. 12. The only suffix differences with the modern dialects were in the form of the plural and verbal noun suffixes. 13. The verbal noun may be modified by adjectives, such as'have a good look'in English. 14. The associated participles and verbal nouns of a verb are the primary means of forming new lexical nouns in Arabic. 15. Both forms are used with the verbal noun ( equivalent to the English present participle ) to create compound tenses. 16. In all dialects except Kalau Kawau Ya, the verb negative is the nominalised privative form of the verbal noun . 17. Nominal forms then follow according to their length ( including those verbal nouns and participles which merit separate listings ). 18. The imperfect stem is the verbal noun ( see above ) plus the suffix "-n ". 19. English has analogous types of verbal nouns ( truly verbal kinds gerunds and infinitives and deverbal nouns ). 20. Verbal nouns are uncontroversially nouns, having only minor syntactic differences to distinguish them from pure nouns like'mountain '.
