Arabic: An Essential Grammar

37.2 If two verbs of wonder refer to the same noun, the second verb is placed after the noun and takes a suffix pronoun, e.g. 37 ...

Remember from chapter 32 that the two verbs َكا َن ka ̄na ‘he was’ and َل ْي َس laysa ‘is not, are not’, have no passive forms. ...

َأ َعا َد  ِْلا ْم ِت َحا َن
a  a ̄da l-
imtih ̇ a ̄na. He repeated (re-took) the exam. (He re- examined.) ي ِةَّن َظ َر ِ ...

37.7 The verb َدا َم da ̄ma ‘to last, to continue, to go on’ can be used in temporal clauses meaning ‘as long as... (something i ...

(a) ِ بـ.. bi... preceding a direct object Certain triliteral transitive verbs, such as َس ِم َع sami  a ‘to hear’ and َب َع َث ...

Note: َما ma ̄ has the function of َل ْي َس laysa, which is a sister of َكا َن ka ̄na. (c) ِ بـ.. bi... preceding the conjunctio ...

1 اَمَّلَق 2 ىَلِإ ِةَكِر َّ شل ُريِدُم يِتْأَي 3 يِف ِهِلَمَع 4 ِيَمْوَي 5 ِتْب َّ سل 6 . ِدَحْ َلأَو (3) It is 1 seldom tha ...

1 َدْعَب 2 ِفْصِن 3 يِف ٍرْهَش 4 ِءاَرْح َّ صل 5 ) ٌلَمَج ( ُلاَمِجـْل ِتَداَك 6 َنِم ُتوُمَت 7 . ِشَطَعْل (13) 1 After 2 hal ...

(7) The cat jumped on my chest and I was almost scared to death. (8) The cat almost died of thirst in the bedroom. (9) There is ...

299 Chapter 38 Adverbs and adverbials, absolute or inner object, h ̇ a ̄l (circumstantial clause) and tamyı ̄z (accusative of sp ...

َم َتى mata ̄ can be preceeded by the particle َأ ْي^
ay, as َأ ْي َم َتى
aymata ̄, without any change of meaning, e.g. 38.4 ...

38.6 Underived adverbs of place, َظ ْر ُف َز َما ٍن , are very few, e.g. Examples: !ِإ ْجِل ْس ُه َنا
ig ̆lis huna ̄! Sit here ...

Examples: ُأ َسا ِف ُر َغ ًدا
usa ̄firu g ̇adan. I will travel tomorrow. طا ِئ َر ُة َل ْي ًلاَّ َو َصَل ِت ل was ̇ alati t ̇ ...

38.11 H ̇ a ̄l clause (phrase) H ̇ a ̄l (^) َحا ٌل means ‘circumstance, condition, or state’. It is added to an already complete ...

َجا َء ْلـ َم ْب ُعو ُث َو ْح َد ُه g ̆a ̄
a l-mab  u ̄t ̄ u wah ̇ da-hu. The delegate came alone (by himself). 38.13 The wa ...

One litre of oil was bought. (zaytan is tamyı z, because it specifies that the measured substance is oil and not something els ...

1 يِناَتَأ 2 ٌفْيَض 3 ًةَأْجَف 4,5 اَنَأَو 6 (^) ُّ دِعَتْسَأ 7 يِف ِباَه َّ ذلـِل 8 ِةَرا َّيَس 9 ْتَناَك ٍةَرْجُأ 01 يِف يِنُر ...

1 اَم َّلُك 2 َداَدْزا 3 ُناَسْنِْلا 4 اًماَرَغ 5 (^) َّ لَق 6 . اًماَنَم (14) 1,2 The more 3 a man is in 4 love, 5 the less 6 ...

(7) I liked to see the lecturer laughing on the main street. (8) The merchant emigrated to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and we ha ...

309 Chapter 39 Conditional sentences 39.1 A conditional sentence contains two parts. The first part of the conditional sentence ...