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Abu Sayyad
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Good thread. Quick question, for the above sentence, would 'Ma fa'alak fi waqt...' make sense too instead of what you've written?
I'm having trouble grasping the different verb forms :-\
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No, you can't use fa'alak. I'm not sure what you mean by fa'alak though. Is it a noun?
If you don't wanna use a verb you can say this:
ماذا أنت فاعل في وقت فراغك
But that's too formal even for fos7a arabic.
That's why it is better to use ماذا تفعل.
In arabic, there is no present simple or present continuous, there's only one present form of the verb.
This present form can be used to say: What do you usually do? or What are you doing right now?