There are many ways learning a new language benefits you, by broadening your horizons, for example, and bettering yourself as a person. However, sometimes it can also be intimidating to many others and we can’t tell you the number of times people ask us, “Is Arabic a hard language to learn?” and while there are some parts of Arabic, like grammar, that doesn’t make it...
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In Arabic syntax and morphology, you’ll start seeing the Arabic grammar nouns, verbs, tenses, and all Arabic grammar rules differently. Welcome to Arabic grammar for beginners. Today is all about Arabic syntax and morphology. To make it easier, we have made some Arabic syntax vs English syntax references to get the grasp of it. Words in the Arabic syntax can be divided into nouns, verbs, or particles....
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Today’s lesson is about the Arabic vocative particle and this vocative particle is called yaa يا. What is the vocative particle? It is when you need to call someone. The Arabic vocative is called النداء /al nida’/, which literally means the calling. The verb of this is called ينادي /yonadi/ which means (he) calls. It is often referred to as the Arabic vocative style which translates...
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Arabic vowels, similar to English ones, give a voice to the language. What’s a language without vowels, right? In Arabic, however, there are fewer vowels than English. The rules concerning helping vowels are broken down to three. Once you recognize them, helping vowels are an easy A. It is all about the haraka of the proceeding vowel and the helping vowel. The Arabic Alphabet: Vowels lesson...
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Arabic rules in grammar are not as difficult if you follow the rules carefully. Unlike English, Arabic does not have too many roots from which the language has formed. English, for example, has words from Latin, Greek and even French roots. The same cannot be said about Arabic. This makes rules easy to understand. There are barely any exceptions to the general rules. So let...
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Searching for Arabic morphology online? Search no more. We have the basics covered here for you. Arabic verb morphology has rules that it abides by and if recognized, everything will fall into place. Let’s first define Arabic morphology which is referred to as صرف /sarf/ or تصريف /tasreef/ (the verb version of it). In Arabic morphology, some internal changes of a word take place and this...
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In our world today, we need to know all about the different countries, towns, and villages especially if you have the love for travel in your blood. Today is all about recognizing the different countries around the world. Let’s learn how to say country in Arabic, which means دولة /dawla/ or بلد /balad/. “Your country” in Arabic, is بلدي /baladi meaning my country. We know that countries are...
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Kuwait as a country is dichotomy. It is a small emirate that sits in one of the one of the driest and most inhospitable deserts in the world, yet its coastline on Kuwait Bay has one of the deepest harbors in the Persian Gulf. In Kuwait City, you’ll find both Western liberalism and Islamic culture and high rise building and luxurious hotels next to stunning...
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Our Arabic grammar lesson for today is all about pronouns. As you already know, pronouns are used to replace nouns in the English language. The same applies to Arabic. In this lesson, we are going to go over all three types of Arabic pronouns: personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns. Personal Pronouns Personal PronounsTransliterationNo.Meaningأنا/ana/SingularMeأنتَ/anta/ SingularYou (male)أنتِ/anti/SingularYou (female)هو/huwa/SingularHim (male)هي/hiya/SingularHer (female)نحن/nahnu/PluralWeأنتم/antom/PluralYou (male)أنتنَّ/antenna/PluralYou (female)هم/hom/PluralThem (male)هنَّ/honna/PluralThem (female) As you can see from the table,...
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In English, the article “the” is easily added to turn an indefinite noun into a definite one. Arabic does the exact same thing with the article al. The article “the” is the ال meaning in Arabic. You’ll find al in Arabic surnames, adjectives, and all nouns. To break it down, al is made of two Arabic letters: أ referred to as alif, and ل referred to as lam....
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