Broken Plural in Arabic Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jul 5, 2018
In a previous post, you learned that Arabic plural nouns are three forms: sound masculine plural جَمْعُ المُذَكَّرِ السَّالِم, sound feminine plural جَمْعُ المُؤَنَّثِ السَّالِم, and broken plural جَمْعُ التَّكْسِيْر. The first two are regular because their formation entail adding a suffix (i.e. ون and ات, respectively) to the end of the singular without a…
Saudi women can finally drive, where are they going? (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jul 4, 2018
More than a week ago, and on the 24th. June, women in Saudi Arabic have finally been allowed to drive سُمح للنساء في السعودية أخيرا بالقيادة. This event has attracted a wide media coverage تغطية إعلامية واسعة and this included many personal statements by Saudi women. In this blog post, we’re going to study a…
Deriving Nouns from Verbs in Arabic (1) Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jul 3, 2018
A distinguishing feature of Arabic language is that it is a derivational language. Multiple words are derived from a single root word based specific morphological rules. Using the morphological measure, affixes (suffixes, prefixes, and infixes) are appended to the root word forming news words. For example, form the root كَتَبَ ‘write’, we derive كَاتِب ‘writer’…
Listening Answer, Saudi women driving Posted by aziza on Jun 29, 2018
This post presents the answer of the listening comprehension exercise presented earlier on Saudi women who have been allowed to drive for the first time. English questions and answers: 1- What does ‘Hissa’ say about the first time she drives? Hissa says that it is a historic day and she is very excited to drive…
Listening – Saudi women driving Posted by aziza on Jun 29, 2018
This week is historic for Saudi women who have been allowed to drive for the first time. This video deals with this important topic. Watch the video and answer the questions that follow. You can use the additional vocabulary list to assist your comprehension. Answer the following questions in English: What does ‘Hissa’ say about…
Eid Al-fitr song: ‘We will sing’ 2 – سنُغنِّي (in spoken Arabic) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jun 27, 2018
Last week, we looked at an Eid-related song, produced by Zain (see clip below). As the song was in Standard Arabic, it’s a good idea to learn how to say each line of the song in both Syrian and Egyptian Arabic. Below, you will find the original lyrics of the song (in standard Arabic). Each…
Relative Clauses in Arabic Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jun 23, 2018
A relative clause is a clause (i.e. part of a sentence that does make a complete meaning) that begins with a relative pronoun. It is also called adjective clause. It functions as an adjective because it provides more information (i.e. describes) the noun or pronoun that come before it. In Arabic, it is called جُمْلَة…