Quadriliteral verbs / الأَفْعال الرُباعِيّة
Simple form / الفِعْل الرُباعي المُجَرّد Quadriliteral verbs in Arabic (الأَفْعال الرُباعية), possess four letters in their root (the pattern فَعْلَلَ) differentiating them from the…
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Rules for writing the hamza / أَحْكام الهَمْزة
We know there are two types of hamza in Arabic, hamzatu l-waṣl (هَمْزَة الوَصْل) on one hand and hamzatu l-qaṭʿ (هَمْزةُ القَطْع) on the other…
Verbal nouns / المَصادِر
The term المَصْدَر, or ‘the source’ in English, is a noun that originates from the verb and signifies the action, quality or condition described by…
The noun patterns / أَنْماط الأسْماء
There are different patterns for nouns in Arabic with the most prominent ones being: Because the verbal noun (المَصْدَر) has many patterns itself we won’t…
The five nouns / الأَسْماء الخَمْسة
The Arabic five nouns, are particular nouns that see their case vowels (fatḥa, ḍamma and kasra) become, respectively, letters ا and و and ي positioned…
The adjectival patterns / أَنْماط الصِفات
There’s six different adjectival patterns in Arabic which are: We already spoke about the active and passive participles in the “augmented forms” part of the…
irregular verbs / الأَفْعال غَيْر السالِمة
Amongst the irregular verbs in Arabic, some root words are classified as “healthy” (صَحِيح), and others are labeled as “weak” (مُعْتَلّ) litt. diseased. أَكَلَ to eat…
The imperative tense / الأَمْر
Form I / الوَزْن الأَوّل The Arabic imperative verb is formed by stripping away the prefix تَـ from the 2nd person jussive and adding a…
The subjunctive and jussive moods / المُضارِع المَنْصُوب والمُضارِع المَجْزُوم
The subjunctive and jussive in Arabic are important grammatical structures. Both moods are formed by modifying the endings of the verb, and they have specific…
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”…