Arabic: An Essential Grammar

17.8 The particle َق ْد qad with the imperfect The particle َق ْد has already been mentioned in chapter 14 in connection with th ...

1 ْدَق 2 ُلُكْأَي َلا 3 ّ طل ِ ُلْف 4 ُبَرْشَي َلاَو 5 نَّ ِلأَ 6 ( ٌّ نِس ).s ُهَناَنْسَأ 7 ْتَأَدَب 8 . ُتُبْنَت (2) qad la ̄ ...

َلا 1 ُفِرْعَن 2 اًدَحَأ 3 يِف ُلَمْعَي 4 ِةَكِرَش 5 . ِطْف َّ نل (9) la ̄ na  rifu
ah ̇ adan ya  malu fı sˇarikati n-naft ...

A Lebanese 4 commercial 3 delegation 1 will go to Amman 2 tomorrow 5 and will stay for 6 one week in the Jordanian capital 7 and ...

(9) The mother swims every day in the pool and sits on a chair under the umbrella and drinks coffee. (10) The commercial delegat ...

115 Chapter 18 Derived verb forms (stems), roots and radicals, transitive and intransitive verbs 18.1 Until now we have dealt wi ...

18.4 The derived verb forms are called َأْلـ َمـ ِزي ُد,
al-mazı ̄du, which means ‘increased’ or ‘added’. They are formed from ...

َشـ ِر َب sˇariba ‘to drink’ or َك ُب َر kabura ‘to grow up’, the vowelling of the derived verb forms remains the same for all v ...

18.15 The meanings of the ten verb forms I–X The basic meanings of the ten verb forms I–X are outlined below with some examples. ...

Form II (a) II is causative: to cause someone to do something (transitive). Iَعـِلـ َم  alima IIلـ َمََّعـ  allama imperf. لـ ...

Iَعِل َم  alima IVَأ ْعـَلـ َم
a  lama imperf. ُيـ ْعـِلـ ُم yu  limu to know to inform (to cause someone to know) (b) IV i ...

(c) VI can also denote a successive or uninterrupted sequence (intransitive). Iَسـ َقـ َط saqat ̇ aVIَتـ َسـا َقـ َط tasa ̄qat ̇ ...

18.16 Pronunciation and spelling rules The following modifications are made for certain derived verbs of form VIII in order to s ...

(b) If the first consonant of the basic verb form is ز /z/, as in َز َه َر zahara ‘to shine’, the infix ..ـتـ.. /-t-/ of form VI ...

Practise your reading: 1 يِف يِتَجْوَز ُس َ ّرَدُت 2 / ِتاَذ 2 ِةَعِماَجـْل ِسْفَن 3 يِتَّل 4 ْتَج َّ رَخَت 5 . اَهْنِم (1) tu ...

1 ِتَمَجاَه 2 ُةَطْر ُّ شل 3 َناَكَم 4 َني َ ّيِباَهْرِْلإ 5 اوُلَداَبَتَو 6 ْمُهَعَم َرا َّ نل 7 َدْعَبَو 8 َنِم ٍةَعاَس 9 ِ ...

1 َعَمَتْجِإ 2 / ِسْم 2 َةَحِراَبْل 3 ّ ثَمُم ِ وُل 4 ِتاَباَق َّ نل 5 ْنَع اوُم َّ لَكَتَو 6 ِعْفَر 7 ِروُجُأ ( ٌرْجَأ ) 8 ِ ...

2 The racing cars 1 started off along 3 the road, 4 where 6 the spectators had 5 gathered 7 to cheer them on (lit. 7 be enthusia ...

128 Chapter 19 Passive verbs 19.1 The passive verb, َأْل ِف ْع ُل ا ْلـ َم ْج ُهو ُل, is used in Arabic when the performer of th ...

has d ̇ ammah, but the middle radical has fat ̇ hah /a/, the basic pattern being: ُي ْف َع ُل yuf  alu, e.g. 19.3 The passive f ...