Chapter 14: Pronouns: Dual

Pronouns: Dual

Detached pronouns
Below are the dual detached pronouns. There are only three, one for each person, and each form is used for both masculine and feminine.

Chapter 13: Dual

A word about Number
In Arabic there are 3 numbers: singular, dual and plural. While singular denotes ONE, plural denotes THREE or more (not two or more). What remains is TWO, which is indicated by Dual. Therefore, the English plural is either dual or plural in Arabic.

Chapter 12: Sentence: Nominal 4

Arabic sentences 4 : Pronoun + Noun/Adjective
Pronouns are definite nouns: All pronouns are nouns. All pronouns are definite. Therefore, pronouns are definite nouns in Arabic.

Chapter 11: Pronouns: Singular

Types of Pronouns
Pronouns in Arabic can be divided into detached and attached. Each pronoun has a singular, a dual and a plural form. We will study only the singular form of the detached pronoun in this lesson. The remaining two will be tackled in future lessons.

Chapter 10: Sentence: Nominal 3

Arabic sentences 3 : Feminine nouns & adjectives

Feminine nouns
As examples of nominal sentences, we will use some of the feminine nouns in the previous lesson. 

Chapter 09: Feminine

A word about Gender
In Arabic there are only 2 genders: masculine and feminine. There is no neuter like in English, which accounts for the absence of a specific equivalent for "it". "It" becomes "he" or "she", usually depending on the way the word is written.

Chapter 08: Sentence Nominal 2

Arabic sentences 2 : Noun + Adjective
Nominal sentences with adjectives. You learnt in a previous lesson a kind of nominal sentence made up of two nouns.

Chapter 07: Adjectives

What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word which qualifies a noun. Below are some adjectives:

Chapter 06: Sentence: Normal 1

Types of Arabic sentences

Arabic sentences are of two types: nominal and verbal. In this lesson we shall learn how to form the Arabic nominal sentence. We'll leave the verbal sentence for later in the course.

Chapter 05: Articles

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Definite and Indefinite Articles in Arabic

The Definite and Indefinite Articles

Chapter 04: Alphabet II

Vowels and Tanween (The ‘N’ sound)

The "N" sound

The three short vowels dealt with in the lesson about vowels have their doubled forms, i.e, ــً ــٌ ــٍ. The doubled vowels are pronounced like their single equivalents but with an "N" sound appended.

Chapter 03: Arabic Vowels

Vowels are not letters

Vowels in Arabic, unlike in English, do not make up the alphabet and are therefore not letters. They are signs (strokes) inserted above/below letters.

Chapter 02: Arabic Letters

Shape is determined by position

The table shows the letters of the alphabet in their possible states, depending on whether they are isolated or together with other letters in a word.

Chapter 01: Arabic Alphabet

Letters of the Arabic alphabet: Consonants & vowels

The Arabic alphabet consists of 28 letters and all are consonants; vowels in Arabic are something different and they do not form part of the alphabet like in English.