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B: The Pronoun of Separation
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You have so far dealt with sentences such as هذا كتابٌ جديدٌ “This is a new book”, and هذا الكتابُ جديدٌ “This book is new.”…
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A: The Noun-Adjective Phrase
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Up until now we have worked with sentences such as: هذا كتابٌ. هذا الكتابُ جديدٌ. كتابُ المدرسِ جديدٌ. The sentences you have learned to…
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C: The Idaafa
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The idaafa is an extremely important construction in Arabic. It is very easy, basic, and ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for any student of the language who wants…
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B: Prepositions
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Prepositions are words like في ,ب , ل , الى , عن and من In addition, there are large number of words, which, while they…
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A: The Genitive Case
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The genitive case occurs in Arabic in two situations. Both of these situations occur very often in the language. First, a noun or adjective following…
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Final Note
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You have now covered quite a number of basics which are essential to learning this language properly. If you have had Arabic before, the above…
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I: Pausal Form
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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…
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H: Gender
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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