 We have seen that Fârâbî thinks that all languages other than Arabic have a word with these functions. Since Arabic has no word that does all these things, he thinks that the Arabic translators of Greek philosophical texts have had trouble with this word, and he discusses different strategies that they have adopted. The most common strategy is to use the Arabic passive participle “mawjûd”, literally “found”, as a tenseless “is” in both 1-place or 2-place contexts, and to use passive forms of the verb “wajada”, “find”, for the tensed “is” and “was” and “will be”. The disadvantage of “mawjûd” is that then the Arabic word for “is” or “being”, unlike the Greek word it translates, is grammatically paronymous, so that its grammatical form does not correspond to its logical form: