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A: Forms VII and VIII
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I will treat Forms VII and VIII together due to some important similarities between the two forms with respect to hollow and doubled verbs. Additionally,…
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C: The Cognate Accusative
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You no doubt have seen sentences such as the following:أكرمني إكراما عظيما . This is usually referred to as the cognate accusative in English. It…
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B: Relative Clauses
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There are two primary types of relative clauses in Arabic. You need to be completely familiar with both of them. In addition, there are a…
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A: Form V and Form VI Verbs
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In this chapter we will treat Forms V and VI together because of the similarities in their structures. تَعَلَّمَ is a Form V verb…
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D: The Impersonal Passive
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In Chapter Three of Part II, I mentioned that there were two other items concerning the passive which I wanted to mention. The first…
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C: The Particles أَنَّ , إِنَّ and أَنْ
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This section is a bit long, but do not confuse length with difficulty. Read it carefully and then do the drills which follow. These three…
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B: Form IV Verbs
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The following discussion of Form IV is based largely on the active voice. For the passive conjugations, which you should be able to predict anyway…
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A: The Comparative and Superlative
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As you know, many adjectives have the فَعيل pattern. Among them are قريب , بعيد , كبير , كثير and طويل . For these adjectives…
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B: The Passive Voice
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The passive voice is widely used in Arabic without the negative associations regarding style that the passive voice has in English. American students are often…
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A: Form III Verbs
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Form III verbs are characterized by an alif placed between the first two radicals. For example قابَلَ, شاهَدَ, , and حاوَلَ are all Form III…
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E: Active and Passive Participles Forms I and II
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The active participle is known in Arabic as اسم الفاعل The word فاعل refers to the form the participles take when derived from a Form…
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D: Verbal Nouns
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A verbal noun represents a change in the form of a verb which allows it to be used as a noun in a sentence. For…
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