Arabic: An Essential Grammar

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َأَدَب

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وُرَ ّوَصُم

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ِةَديِرَجـْل

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َباَرْضِْلإ

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ِةَّ دُمـِل

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(. ٌةَعاَس ).s ِنْيَتَعاَس

(14) bada

a mus

̇

awwiru ̄ l-g ̆arı

• dati l-

id

̇

ra ̄ba li-muddati sa ̄



atayni.

2

The photographers of

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the newspaper

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began the

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two-hour (

5

time)

4

strike.

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وُسِدْنَهُم

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ِةَكِرـَش

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ِطْفـ َّ نـل

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ىَلِإ َنو ُّ وـُعْدَم

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ٍةَلْفَح

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. ِريِزَوْل َدْنِع

(15) muhandisu ̄ sˇarikati n-naft
̇

i mad



uwwu ̄na

ila ̄ h

̇

aflatin



inda l-wazı

• ri.
  1
  The engineers of the
  3
  oil
  2
  company are
  4
  invited to
  5
  a party
  6
  at the

minister’s (house).

Translate into Arabic:

(1) The (two) merchants’ car is black.

(2) The owner of the restaurant slaughtered two red hens.

(3) A large number of journalists went to two capitals (cities) in the Arab

world.

(4) The male and female teachers are travelling tomorrow on a short

holiday.

(5) The two rich owners of the restaurant lived in two big palaces in the

centre of the city.

(6) The two new engineers are not faithful to the company.

(7) The married couple visited two new gardens in the centre of the city.

(8) The two new policemen won two travel tickets to Europe.

(9) The photographers of the newspaper are travelling to some of the

emirates and republics in the Arab world.

(10) The two new physicians were (became) angry with the director of the

training course.

(11) The two engineers were angry with the ambassador at the party (given)

by the minister.

(12) The director of the nursing institute was happy at the news of the

(female) students’ success.

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