Arabic: An Essential Grammar

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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 ̄lun wa-l-mifta ̄h
̇

u laysa ma






  • ı


    .



The door of this
1
car is
2
locked and I
4
do not
5
have
3
the key (
3
the key
4
is

not
5
with me).

ه


ا
ِهِذ

1
ُبُتُكْل َيِه

2
ذَو ُةَميِدَقْل

ا
ىَلَع ُباَتِكْل َكِل

3
)ّفَ َّ رل

4

. ٌديِدَج ( َوُه


(4) ha ̄d
̄


ihi hiya l-kutubu l-qadı


  • matu wa-d
    ̄


a ̄lika l-kita ̄bu


ala ̄ r-raffi (huwa)

g ̆adı


  • dun.


These
1
are
2
the old books (broken plur.), and that book on the
3
shelf
4
is

new.

1
ُريِدُم َلِبَق

2
ِةَكِر َّ شل

3
ه َرْذُع

ا
.ِف َّ ظَوُمـْل اَذ

(5) qabila mudı



  • ru sˇ-sˇarikati



ud
̄

ra ha ̄d
̄

a ̄ l-muwad
̄ ̇

d
̄ ̇

afi.

The manager of
2
the company
1
accepted this employee’s
3
excuse (alibi).

1
ُةَرْثَك

2
ه ِفْوَخـْل

ا
َنِم ِهِذ

3
ِرَف َّ سل

4
ّوَجـْلˆِب

ِ
ْتَسْيَل

5
.ًةَّ يِعيِبَط

(6) kat
̄


ratu l-h
̆

awfi ha ̄d
̄

i-hi mina s-safari bi-l-g ̆awwi laysat t
̇

abı


  • 
    iyyatan.


This
1
much
2
fear
4
of air
3
travel is not
5
normal.

ُبِتاَك


1
ه ِة َّ صِقْل

ا
اَذ

2
ُذاَتْسُأ َوُه

3

. اَنِتَعِماَج يِف َ ّيِبَرَعْل ِبَدْ َلأ


(7) ka ̄tibu l-qis
̇


s
̇

ati ha ̄d
̄

a ̄ huwa


usta ̄d
̄

u l-


adabi l-


arabiyyi fı


  • g ̆a ̄mi



ati-na ̄.

This writer of
1
the novel
2
is a professor of Arabic
3
literature at our

university.

1
ه ِةَنيِدَمـْل ُةَبَتْكَم

ا
( َيِه ) ِهِذ

2
ٌةَميِدَق

3
َسْيَلَو

4
ٌبُتُك اَهيِف

5

. ٌةَثيِدَح


(8) maktabatu l-madı



  • nati ha ̄d
    ̄


i-hi (hiya) qadı


  • matun wa-laysa fı

    • -ha ̄ kutubun




h
̇

adı-t
̄

atun.

This city
1
library (
1
bookshop) is
2
old
3
and contains no (lit. there are not
4
in it)
5
contemporary books.

َكْلِت ْتَبَتَك


1
ّصْل

ِ


ُةَّ يِفاَح


2
َكْلِت ُة َّ يِبَنْجْ َلأ

3
ه يِف َةَليِو َّ طل ِتَلااَقَمـْل

ا
ِهِذ

4
ِت َّ لاَجَمـْل

5
.ِةَّ يِرْه َّ شل

(9) katabat tilka s
̇


-s
̇

ih
̇

a ̄fiyyatu l-


ag ̆nabiyyatu tilka l-maqa ̄la ̄ti t
̇

-t
̇

awı


  • lata fı






ha ̄d
̄

i-hi l-mag ̆alla ̄ti sˇ-sˇahriyyati.

That
2
foreign
1
journalist (f.) wrote those long
3
articles in these
5
monthly
4
magazines.

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Demon-
strative,
reflexive
and
reciprocal
pronouns
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