I: Pausal Form
The case endings on the last word in a sentence are usually not pronounced. Nor are they pronounced before any other natural pause. Thus in […]
Part 1 – Chapter 1
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H: Gender
Like Spanish, Arabic has two genders, masculine and feminine. Most nouns not referring to people are arbitrarily assigned a gender, again, just like Spanish. For […]
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G: Demonstrative Pronouns
هذا is a masculine demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.ما هذ؟ means “What is this?”. هذا طالبٌ means “This is a student”. هذا is the subject of […]
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F: Helping Vowels and the Elidable Hamza
We have already seen the definite article in Arabic – أل . The first letter of the article is actually the hamza. The hamza is […]
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E: Question Words
Arabic, like English, adds words to sentences in order to form questions. Here we will deal with some of the most common interrogative words used […]
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D: The Nominative Case
The nominative case is used in an Arabic sentence primarily in two situations. The first is for the subject of any sentence. That is to […]
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C: Case
Nouns and adjectives in Arabic are declined for case. Part One of this book will focus a great deal of attention. If you are new […]
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B: The Definite Article
Words are made definite in Arabic by attaching أل to the beginning of the word. For example, مُدَرِّس means “a teacher”. “The teacher” is rendered […]
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A: The Equational Sentence
There are two kinds of sentences in Arabic, those with a verb and those without a verb. For the first few lessons we will deal […]