Arabic: An Essential Grammar

(a) Verbs withو /w/ or ي /y/ as initial and final radical: These verbs obey both the rules for verbs with a weak initial radical ...

33.12 Verbs with a middle hamzah and final
alif-maqs ̇ u ̄rah ى (in the basic form) are rare, but include the common verb َر َ ...

1 ْمَل 2 يِف َرَأ 3 يِرْمُع 4 ه ْنِم َلَمْجَأ ا ِهِذ 5 . ِةاَتَفْل (4) I have 1 never in 3 my life 2 seen 4 a more beautiful 5 ...

1 َلا اًوْفَع 2 ْنَأ ُديِرُأ 3 يِف ىَقْبَأ 4 ِلِخا َّ دل 5 ٌليِمَج ُّ وَجْلَو 6 . ٍفاَصَو 7 َلاَعَت 8 يِفَو ِقو ُّ سل يِف ى ّ ...

ُتْبَهَذ 1 ىَلَع ًةَليِوَط ًةَفاَسَم 2 ) ٌمَدَق ( ِماَدْقْ َلأ 3 َي َّ لَصُِلأ 4 َةَلاَص 5 يِف ِرْه ُّ ظل 6 ِعِماَجـْل 7 َعِم ...

(9) Today, I met a colleague whom I had not seen for a long time. (10) Do not forget to come with me today to the mosque to hear ...

256 Chapter 34 Cardinal numbers 34.1 The Arabic cardinal numbers, ي ُةََّأْ َلأ ْع َدا ُد ْ َلأ ْصِل, are rather com- plicated ...

Note a: ِص ْف ٌر s ̇ ifrun ‘zero’ comes from the verb َص َف َر , which means ‘to be empty’. Note b: The combined accusative-geni ...

Note: These numbers never precede the noun adjectivally, because the singular and dual forms of the nouns are sufficient to indi ...

34.6 ِب ْض ُع bid ̇  u, whose feminine is ِب ْض َع ُة bid ̇  atu, means ‘(a) few, some, several’. It follows the rules for the ...

Examples: 34.8 The cardinal numbers of the tens َأْل ُع ُقو ُد, i.e. 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, are treated as sound plural ...

34.9 The compound numbers 20–99 are followed by the noun in the indefinite accusative singular, like the numbers 11–19. These co ...

Note: Observe that the middle
alif (ا) in ِما َئ ٌة mi
atun, as an alternative form of ِم َئ ٌة mi
atun, is not pronounced ...

34.14 The numbers thousand and million are used with both mascu- line and feminine and followed by the noun in the indefinite ge ...

Note: The preceding noun can also be made definite by occurring in the
id ̇ a ̄fah construction, e.g. ثلا َث ُةَّل ِم لَُّك ُ ...

َس َن َة َأْل ٍف َو ِت ْس ِع ِم َئ ٍة َو ِت ْس ٍع َو ِت ْس ِعي َن (fem. acc.) sanata
alfin wa-tis  i mi
atin wa-tis  in wa ...

Exercises Practise your reading: 1 َحِبَر 2 ِةَعِماَجـْل ُقيِرَف 3 ْنِم َةَرْشَع ىَدْحِإ v ُّ َيِضاَيّ رل 4 ْيَتَنْث َةَرْشَع ...

ْتَناَك 1 ُةَرْجِه 2 ٍةَئِم َ ّتِس ِةَنَس يِف ِةَنيِدَمـْل ىَلِإ َة َّ كَم َنِم ٍد َّ مَحُم َ ّيِب َّ نل َنيِرْشِعَو ِنْيَنْث ...

اَّمَأ 51 ُرو ُّ نل 61 ه ُزاَتْجَيَف ا ِهِذ 71 يِناَمَثِب َةَفاَسَمـْل 81 َةَرْشَع َعْسِتَو َقِئاَقَد 91 . ًةَيِناَث (9) If we ...

269 Chapter 35 Ordinal numbers, fractions, expressions of time and calendars 35.1 The ordinal numbers, يُّ تـ ْر ِتـيـ ِبََّأْلـ ...