Nouns may be formed from verb roots in two ways.

This type of drill, however, probably teaches little more than familiarity with the verb root.

Each verb root can be modified through one or more basic derivational processes.

It is formed by adding -am to the verb root.

They are added to some verb root in the following order :

Each verb root takes at least two forms to which suffixes are added.

A small number of commonly used verb roots have irregular present tenses.

Before verb roots, it is used for the present and future tenses.

In Amharic, verb roots can be reduplicated three different ways.

Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.