Months and weekdays / الأَشْهُر وأَيّام الأُسْبُوع
Months / الأَشْهُر Understanding the concept of time, including months and calendars, plays a significant role in any language. In Arabic, this knowledge carries deep…
Category: Arabic grammar: Elementary
Step beyond the basics into a more focused study with our “Arabic Grammar: Elementary” sub-category. Consisting of thoughtfully compiled posts, this section delves deeper into the structure of Arabic, cementing your basic knowledge while introducing more serious grammatical concepts. At this stage, your understanding of Arabic begins to take a more comprehensive shape.
The relative pronoun and the relative clause / الاِسْم المَوْصُول وصِلة المَوْصُول
Relative pronouns / اِسم المَوْصُول Relative pronouns in Arabic mean who, which, that. Despite the difference in number and gender, they all have the same…
The demonstrative phrase / المُرَكّب الإِشاريّ
Arabic has two sets of demonstratives, also known as “أسْماء الإشارة,” which are similar to the English ones this/these and that/those. The demonstrative phrase in…
The ten measures of the triliteral verb / أَوْزان الفِعْل الثُلاثِيّ
Besides basic verbs, we can find derived forms of a root verb by adding one, two, or three letters. These are known as “augmented forms”…
Interrogatives / الاِسْتِفْهام
Interrogatives in Arabic are divided into two categories. Interrogative pronouns / أَسْماء الاِسْتِفْها who/whom? مَنْ ؟ what? ما ؟ what? ماذا ؟ when? مَتى ؟ …
Cardinal numbers / الأَعْداد الأَصْلِيّة
Cardinal numbers in Arabic are quite complex and many Arabic native speakers make errors in using them, that’s why most pronounce them the dialectal way…
Conjunctions / حُرُوف العَطْف
Conjunctions in Arabic (حُرُوف العَطْف) belong to the category of particles (حُرُوف) which means they are indeclinable (مَبْنِيّة) and have no direct influence on the…
Conjugation / تَصْرِيف الأَفْعال
The verb is conjugated in one of the three tenses in Arabic conjugation: The Arabic language does not feature tenses which are precise reflections of…
The verbal sentence / الجُمْلة الفِعْلِيّة
The verbal sentence in Arabic (الجُمْلة الاِسْميّة) is composed of a verb and its subject (either explicitly mentioned as a noun or implicit as a…
Adverbs of time and place / الظُرُوف الزَمان والمَكان
Arabic adverbs are referred to as (ظُروف) which directly translates to “vessel” or “container,” indicating the span of time and/or location in which a verb’s…