The Arabic five nouns, are particular nouns that see their case vowels (fatḥa, ḍamma and kasra)...
The five nouns / الأَسْماء الخَمْسة
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Arabic grammar: Intermediate
The exception and the exclusivity / الاِسْتِثْناء والحَصْر
To express the exclusivity and the exception in Arabic we resort to a few words all meaning ...
The conditional sentence / الجُمْلة الشَرْطِيّة
The double sentence When it comes to Arabic conditional sentences, both Arabic and English have a...
The adjectival patterns / أَنْماط الصِفات
There’s six different adjectival patterns in Arabic which are: The active participle / اِسْم...
Additional complements : The absolute object, the state and the disambiguation / المَفْعُول المُطْلَق والحال والتَمْيِيز
The absolute object / المَفْعول المُطْلَق The absolute object (المَفْعُول المُطْلَق) is a...
Ordinal numbers, fractions and the expression of time / الأَعْداد الـتَرْتِيبِيّة والكُسُور والتَعْبِير عَن الوَقْت
Ordinal numbers Unlike cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers in Arabic must conform to the gender and...
Kāna and its sisters / كانَ وأَخَواتُها
Kana and its sisters are verbs when placed as head constituents of a nominal sentence, put the...
irregular verbs / الأَفْعال غَيْر السالِمة
Amongst the irregular verbs in Arabic, some root words are classified as "healthy" (صَحِيح), and...
Inna and its sisters / إِنّ وأَخَواتُها
Inna and its sisters (إِنّ وَأَخَواتُها) are accusative particles that can only be followed by a...
The negative copula “laysa” / لَيْسَ
The negative copula لَيْسَ laysa in Arabic, meaning ‘not to be’, is used to turn a nominal...
The imperative tense / الأَمْر
Form I / الوَزْن الأَوّل The Arabic imperative verb is formed by stripping away the prefix تَـ...
The subjunctive and jussive moods / المُضارِع المَنْصُوب والمُضارِع المَجْزُوم
The subjunctive and jussive in Arabic are important grammatical structures. Both moods are formed...
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...
The demonstrative phrase / المُرَكّب الإِشاريّ
Arabic has two sets of demonstratives, also known as "أسْماء الإشارة," which are similar to the...
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...