Tag Archives: Arabic grammar
Verb Tense: (2) Present المضارع Posted by Fisal on Apr 23, 2011
We spoke earlier about the past tense of Arabic verbs and learnt that the root verb is always in the past tense. We also learnt the types of root verbs according to their minimum number of letters. Today, we are going to speak about the present tense and how to conjugate it from the…
Nouns: Wrapping Up تلخيص الاسم Posted by Fisal on Apr 11, 2011
Today, we are going to wrap up what we have learnt so far about nouns. Definition: A noun is a part of speech that refers to something that can be realized by the mind or by the senses and Time is not part of. In the previous posts, we have looked at nouns from four…
Some confusing words Posted by aziza on Mar 27, 2011
One day Katherine protested, I will never know the difference between mosque and university in Arabic! Why are they so confusing? Later on the same day, another student translated modern as event, and again he was very frustrated with the similarity between both words! Arabic is a highly derivational language where most content words, i.e…
Irregular verbs – again Posted by aziza on Mar 25, 2011
In this post, I respond to a query from a reader who noticed that the second person masculine plural form is not included in the table. The table presented below is complete. Doubled verbs (الفعل المضعف) in Arabic end in a doubled letter, i.e. one with shadda (ـّ), e.g. (شدّ) ‘pulled’, (ظنّ) ‘thought’, (استعدّ) ‘got…
A note about the imperative Posted by aziza on Mar 20, 2011
In this post, I give a useful note about the imperative (الأمر). I taught the imperative to my students recently, and as I explained before that the imperative of regular form I verbs (that do not have vowels) is formed by following the pattern (افعل). It is sometimes vowels with a short /o/ on the…
Nouns الاسم /Al-Ism/ : Number العدد /Al-Adad/ Posted by Fisal on Mar 12, 2011
* Arabic Nouns fall into Three main categories concerning their Number: (1) Singular مفرد /Mofrad/ (2) Dual مثنى /Mothanna/ (3) Plural جمع /Gam’/ (1) The Singular Noun الاسم المفرد /Al-Ism Al-Mofrad/ It is the Noun that refers to only ONE person or thing. Examples: – Mohammad محمد – Mona منى – man رجل /rajul/ – boy…
Nouns الأسماء /Al-Asma’a / : Gender الجنس /Al-Genss/ Posted by Fisal on Mar 11, 2011
* Arabic Nouns fall into two main categories concerning their Gender: (1) Masculine مذكر /Mozakkar/ & (2) Feminine مؤنث /Mo’annath/ * There some other sub-categories to these two main ones. * Note that: The Gender of a word is mostly determined by its Form not by the Concept it refers to…