Arabic: An Essential Grammar

3 The publishing 2 houses 1 published 4 the works of 5 the writers 6 and poets 7 and rejected some of them 8 although they were ...

151 Chapter 22 Triptotes and diptotes 22.1 Nouns, adjectives and proper names are classified according to their inflection into ...

The most common classes of diptotes are: 22.3 Proper names (a) Feminine proper names, with or without ta ̄
marbu ̄t ̇ ah (^) ُ ...

Note: Even masculine proper names ending in ة .. َـ ُة ُ ِ ... /...atu/ are diptotes, e.g. (b) Feminine proper names containing ...

Note: The noun below has the same structure as the proper names above, but it is not a diptote, because its feminine singular is ...

Note a: When the above adjectives occur as proper names then they are treated as diptotes, following rule 3 (g) above, e.g. َغ ْ ...

Note b: The word َأ ْش َيا ُء
asˇya ̄
u ‘things’ (sing. َش ْي ٌء sˇay
un) is an exception because it is a diptote in the Q ...

1 / ُتْنَكَس 1 )VI ( ُتْمَقَأ 2 َفْصِن 3 يِف ٍةَنَس 4 اَنيِس ِءاَرْحَص 5 َنِم اًبيِرَق 6 ِرْحَبْل 7 . ِطِّسَوَتُمـْل (2) sakan ...

1 I spoke to (with)
Akram, Mohammad,
Ahmad and George, 2 and I wrote to Ali, Omar, Solomon, Othman, Abraham and Yazid. 1 يِف ...

1 ٌبِلاَط َبَسَر 2 يِف ُنَلاْسَك 3 ِناَحِتْم 4 ) ٌةَدِعاَق .s ( ِدِعاَوَق 5 .ِةَّ يِبَرَعْل ِةَغ ُّلل (13) rasaba t ̇ a ̄libu ...

160 Chapter 23 Participles, verbal nouns (mas ̇ dar), nouns of place, time and instrument 23.1 Active participle The active part ...

Note: The above words َغ ًدا and َضا ِح ًكا are in the accusative case, because they function as adverbs (see chapter 38). 23.3 ...

23.5 Active participles and passive participles of the derived verb forms II–X are formed according to the pattern below with th ...

َق ْت ٌل qatlun, ‘killing, murder’ is derived from the verb َق َت َل qatala, ‘to kill’; similarly, ُح ْس ٌن h ̇ usnun ‘beauty’, ...

(c) The Arabic verbal noun can often be translated by an English infinitive or gerund, e.g. َق َص َد ْل َق ْت َل qas ̇ ada l-qa ...

Exercises (The transliterations will be omitted from the exercises from this point on, as the student should now be familiar eno ...

Practise your reading: (^) َ ّلُك يِف 1 ٍحاَبَص 2 ُس َّ نَكُي 3 ُف َّ ظَنٌمـْل 4 َضْرَأ 5 ِعِماجـْل 6 ُهَداـ َّ جَسَو ( ٌةَدا ...

1 َن َّيُع 2 يِجْوَز 3 يِف َناَنْبُل َبوُدْنَم 4 ( ٌةَّمُأ ) ُِمَمْ لأ 5 ِةَدِح َّ تُمـْل 6 ُرِشاَبـُيـَسَو 7 يِف ُهَلـَمَع 8 ...

7 to attend the 10 Independence 9 Day 8 festivities, 11 because he was not 12 carrying an 14 invitation 13 card, 15,16 although ...

169 Chapter 24 Interrogative particles and pronouns, vocative particles 24.1 Interrogative particles ُح ُرو ُف  ِْلا ْس ِت ْف َ ...