Arabic: An Essential Grammar

15.8 When the suffix pronoun for the first person singular is attached to a sound masculine plural, the final و.ُ ... /...u ̄/ i ...

15.10 In contradiction to the above grammatical rule, in modern literary Arabic two coordinated annexed nouns are often placed b ...

15.14 The preposition ...ِل /li.../ ‘for, to, belonging to’ takes the form َل ... /la.../ before all suffix pronouns, except bef ...

masculine plural of a verb in the perfect tense, the personal ending ُت ْم .../...tum/ becomes ... ُت ُمو /...tum-u ̄/, e.g. 15. ...

15.21 The suffix pronouns may be attached to the bound particle ياَِّإ^
iyya ̄, which functions as supporter for the direct ob ...

Exercises Practise your reading: 1 َلَسَغ 2 ُمِداَخـْل 3 ِريِدُمـْل ِتْيَبَجَرَد 4 ُهَتَرا َّ يَسَو 5 . ِهِبَتْكَم َضْرَأَو (1 ...

َكوُخَأَو َكوُبَأ 1 اَبِكَر 2 يِف يِعَم 3 ِسْفَن 4 ىَلِإ ِةَلِفاَحـْل 5 . ِةَنيِدَمـْل ِطَسَو (7)
abu ̄-ka wa-
ah ̆ u ̄-ka ...

1 َباَتِكْل اَمُتْبَتَك اَمُتْنَأ 2 ُنْحَنَو 3 . ُهاَنْأَرَق (12)
antuma ̄ katabtuma ̄ l-kita ̄ba 2 wa-nah ̇ nu qara
na ̄-h ...

98 Chapter 16 Demonstrative, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns 16.1 As in English, there are in Arabic two series of demonstrati ...

16.2 The demonstrative pronouns can be used both independently (as nouns) and adjectivally in Arabic: Note: In the adjectival co ...

16.4 When the predicate noun is in the
id ̇ a ̄fah construction, or followed by a suffixed pronoun, or when it is a proper nam ...

16.8 Reflexive and emphasizing (corroborative) pronouns (a) Arabic uses the noun َن ْف ٌس nafsun (pl. َأ ْن ُف ٌس
anfusun), ‘s ...

(e) The adjective form (nisbah, introduced in chapter 25) of َذا ٌت d ̄ a ̄tun is َذا ِتي d ̄ a ̄tı ̄, ‘self-’, e.g. ذا ِتيََّأْ ...

ه ُباَب ا ِهِذ 1 ِةَرا يََّّ سل 2 ٌلوُفْقَم 3 ُحاَتْفِمـْلَو 4 َسْيَل 5 . يِعَم (3) ba ̄bu ha ̄d ̄ ihi s-sayya ̄rati maqfu ̄lu ...

( َوُه ) اَم 1 ه ُبَبَس ا ِهِذ 2 ه اَنِتَلِكْشُم ُبَبَس ؟ِةَلِكْشُمـْل ا ِهِذ 3 ُهَل َسْيَلَو ٌد َّ قَعُم 4 . ٌريِسْفَت (10) ma ...

Translate into Arabic: (1) The manager accepted the excuse of these two girls. (2) This is forbidden and that is permitted. (3) ...

106 Chapter 17 Imperfect tense verb in the indicative and word order 17.1 The Arabic imperfect tense َأْلـ ُم َضا ِر ُع expresse ...

(a) fath ̇ ah, then the middle vowel of the imperfect tense can be fath ̇ ah, kasrah or d ̇ ammah, e.g. (b) kasrah, then the mid ...

17.5 Word order in sentences with an imperfect tense verb The imperfect verb either precedes or follows its subject. The verb ag ...

OR Sing.ل َي ْو ٍم ِإَ لى َع َمِل ِهََّي ْذ َه ُب ْل َعا ِم ُل ُك yad ̄ habu l-  a ̄milu kulla yawmin
ila ̄  amali-hi. Plur ...