Arabic: An Essential Grammar

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The publishing

2

houses

1

published

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the works of

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the writers

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and poets

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and rejected some of them

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although they were

9

good.

1

ِبَبَسِب

2

ِةَّلِق

3

يِف ( ٌرَطَم ).s ِراَطْمْ َلأ

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( ٌماَع ).s ِماَوْعْ َلأ

5

ِةَريِخْ َلأ

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ْتَر َّ رَضَت

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( ٌمِسْوَم ).s ُمِساَوَم

8

ِراَضُخـْل

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يِف ِةَهِكاَفْلَو

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.(ٌةَعَرْزَم ).s ِعِراَزَمـْل

(12) bi-sababi qillati l-

amta ̄ri fı

• l-

a



wa ̄mi l-

ah

̆

ı

• rati tad
  ̇

arrarat mawa ̄simu

l-h

̆

ud

̇

a ̄ri wa-l-fa ̄kihati fı

• l-maza ̄ri



i.

1

Because of

2

lack (

2

scarcity) of

3

rain in

5

recent

4

years,

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the vegetable

9

and

fruit

7

harvests on

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the farms have been

6

damaged.

1

(^) ُّ يِبَرَعْل ُبْع َّ شلَأ
2
ِبوُع ُّ شل ِنْيَب ْنِم
3
يِف ِةَميِظَعل
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يِتَّ ل ِمَلاَعْل
5
ِتَرَشَن
6

. َةَراَضَحـْل

(13)

asˇ-sˇa



bu l-



arabiyyu min bayni sˇ-sˇu



u ̄bi l-



ad

̄ ̇

ı

• mati fı
  
  
  • l-
  
  
  
  



a ̄lami llatı

• nasˇarati

l-h

̇

ad

̇

a ̄rata.

The Arabs (Arab

1

people) are

2

among the

3

great peoples (of

4

the world)

who have

5

spread

6

civilization.

Translate into Arabic:

(1) The inhabitants of the area are busy (in) preparing a party for their

poets and writers.

(2) Because of the heavy rain, a truck turned upside down and the boxes

and sacks filled with fruit and vegetables fell out.

(3) The merchants discussed the wages of the workers and employees and

the reduction of working hours.

(4) The sea fish is tastier than the freshwater fish.

(5) The thieves went into the company through (from) the window and

stole medicines and valuable things.

(6) The guard left the door of the publishing house open, so thieves went

in and stole some of the works of the writers and poets.

(7) Some of the Arab scientists published works on their discovery of new

medicines.

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Broken

plurals and

collective

nouns