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B: The Dual of Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Verbs
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Plurals in Arabic always refer to three or more things. Arabic has special forms to deal with two things. Americans hate the dual. However, unlike…
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A: The Rules of Agreement in Arabic
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Whether you realize it or not, you already know most of the rules of agreement in Arabic. There is really only one more thing you…
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F: The Words كلٌّ and بَعْضٌ
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كُلٌّ is a noun which means “each” or “every” and sometimes means “all” depending upon the context. When كل is followed by an indefinite noun,…
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E: Plural Demonstrative Pronouns
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The demonstrative pronouns هذا and هذه have a lovely broken plural. The plural for both of these words is هؤلاء. This plural is only used…
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D: Broken Plurals
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I briefly alluded to broken plurals at the beginning of this chapter. These are plurals which arise from internal and sometimes external changes to the…
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C: Masculine Sound Plurals in Idaafas and with Pronoun Suffixes
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How would you say “the correspondents of the newspaper” in Arabic? What YOU would probably do is what most American students of Arabic usually do:…
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B: Verb-Subject Agreement
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You will like this. This is easy. The typical Arabic sentences begins with a verb. In Arabic such a sentence is known as جملة فِعليّة…
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A: Sound Plurals
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A sound plural is a suffix which is added to the end of the word in order to indicate the plural. The suffixes reflect gender…
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F: The Pausal Form Revisited
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In Chapter One we briefly discussed what is known as the “pausal form“. We noted that the case endings of words at the end of…
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E: Verbs – Past Tense and the Accusative Case
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We have covered so far two of the three cases in Arabic. Now we come to the last case, the accusative. The accusative is primarily…
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D: Possessive Pronouns
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Arabic uses pronoun suffixes as another way to indicate possession. In English we say “my house,” “his house,” etc., to indicate that something belongs to…
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C: The Nisba Adjective
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The nisba adjective is the “relative” adjective in Arabic. It is often used with place names. For example, a man from Baghdad can be referred…
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