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Grammar Points
The Focus of This Lesson is Basic Arabic Grammar
English is an SVO language: subject verb object.
For example, I eat fruit: subject = I, verb = eat, object = fruit
Arabic has the same grammar structure as English. For example, I eat fruit. ﺁﻛﻞ ﺃﻧﺎ
.ﻓﺎﻛﻬﺔ
Subject = I
Verb = eat
Object = fruit
ﻓﺎﻛﻬﺔ = ﻣﻔﻌﻮﻝ ﺑﻪ، ﺑﺎﻛﻞ = ﻓﻌﻞ، ﺃﻧﺎ = ﺿﻤﻴﺮ ﺷﺨﺼﻲ
ʾanā = Subject pronoun, bākul= Verb, fākha= Object
In Arabic there are two kinds of sentences:
1. Verbal sentence: This type of sentence starts with the verb and the
subject follows. The verb is always in singular form even if the subject is
dual or plural. The verb can also come after the subject, which, in this
2 case, must agree with the subject (single, dual, plural). Also, it must
agree in gender (masculine and feminine).
2. Nominal sentence: A sentence that starts with a noun. The nominal
sentence normally starts with a definite noun. The first noun is then
followed by another noun that is indefinite.
Now, there's some good news and bad news.
The Bad News
English verbs are different only in the third person of the present tense. Other
tenses remain the same for all pronouns. In Arabic, the verb will be conjugated
according to the person. This means that every subject gets a different verb
form, which means that the subject does not necessarily need to be mentioned.
This is similar to languages such as French, Spanish and Italian.
The Good News
English has three simple tenses: present, past, future. Arabic has two main
tenses: the perfect tense, and the imperfect tense, which is also known as
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present tense.
Other Tips
Gender: Arabic has two genders, expressed by pronominal as well as by verbal
agreement. Agreement with numerals shows a peculiar 'polarity'. The genders
are usually referred to as masculine and feminine, but the situation is more
complicated than that. The 'feminine' gender is also used to express
'singulatives'.
Plural: In Arabic, there are two types of noun and adjective plural forms: sound
(regular) plurals, and broken (irregular) plurals. Masculine sound plural nouns
end in "ūn" and feminine sound plural nouns end in "āt".
Pronouns: Pronouns in Arabic belong to the category of "nouns." Therefore,
everything that applies to nouns will apply to them. Pronouns have genders,
numbers, and grammatical case. Pronouns are always definite nouns. Pronouns
in Arabic are divided into four categories:
Subject Pronouns: Separate Subject Pronouns, Attached Subject Pronouns
Object Pronouns: Separate Object Pronouns, Attached Object Pronouns
Conjugation: Conjugation is all about how verbs change between sentences
depending on a number of factors. The three most important factors in Arabic
are person, gender, and number. In Arabic there are three numbers; singular,
dual, and plural (where plural means more than two). In Arabic, words have
gender which affects conjugation of the verb.
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