Arabic: An Essential Grammar

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ُهَذاَتْسُأ ٌبِلاَط َدَعَو

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ُهَّ نَأِب

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َنِم

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َنْلآ

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ُسُرْدَيَس اًدِعاَصَف

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ُهَل َلاَق vَرَثْكَأ

ُvُذاَتْسْ لأ


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ْنَذِإ

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يِف َحَجْنَتَس

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. ِناَحِتْمِْلا


(13) A student
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promised his professor (teacher)
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that
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from
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now
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on he

would study
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more. The professor said to him: ‘
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Then
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you will pass

(succeed in)
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the exam.’

ٌءاَم َكَدْنِع ْلَه ’


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َتْنَأ اًذِإ ’ ـ ‘ ؟َبَرْش َ ِلأ ٌدِراَب

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‘. ُناَشْطَع

(14)‘Do you have
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cold water to drink?’ – ‘Then you are
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thirsty!’

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َلَأَس

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ْنَأ َتْنِبْل ُّ باَّ شل

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: ْتَلاَق vاَهَبُطْخَي

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َتْنَأ ْنَذِإ

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. يِنَّ بِحُت


(15)
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The young man
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proposed to the girl (lit. he
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asked the girl
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to get

engaged with him). She said: ‘
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Then
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you love me.’

َلاَق


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ُجْو َّ زل

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: ِهِتَجْوَزِل

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ُلَمْعَأَس

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اَم َّلُك

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َتْنَأ اًذِإ :ُةَجْو َّ زل ِتَلاَقَف vِكُحِرْفُي

ٌجْوَز


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.ّ ٌبِحُم

(16)
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The husband said to
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his wife: ‘
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I will do
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anything that
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pleases you.’ So

the wife said: ‘Then you are
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a loving husband.’

يِنْبِإ


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! َبيِبَحـْل

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ْبُتْكُأ ؟ َّ يَلِإ ْبُتْكَت ْمَل اَذاَمـِل

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ْنَع يِنْرِبْخَأَو

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! َكِت َّ حِص

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ْنَأَو َلوُحُكْل َبَرْشَت َلا ْنَأِب َكُحَصْنَأَو

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َنِم َلـ َّ لـَقُت

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. ِنيِخْد َّ تل


(17)
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My beloved son!
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Why didn’t you write to me? Write
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and tell me

about
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your health!
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I advise you not to drink alcohol and to
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cut down

(reduce) your
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smoking.

Translate into Arabic:

(1) My colleague refused to make his lecture short at the Institute of Arabic

Studies.

(2) The Parliament did not accept the proposal which was not submitted by

the minister.

(3) I could not lift the bag off the bed to move it to the floor.

(4) Take your medicine and wash your face before you go to sleep!

(5) Let us wait here in the restaurant till my son and my wife return.

(6) The sick minister will neither eat nor drink at his son’s wedding.

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Moods:

subjunctive,


jussive
(apocopa-
tus),
imperative
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