Arabic
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Arabic

An Essential Grammar

  1. 476 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Arabic

An Essential Grammar

About this book

This new edition of Arabic: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of the language.

Suitable for beginners, as well as intermediate students, the book offers a strong foundation for learning the fundamental grammar and structure of Arabic. The complexities of the language are set out in short, readable sections, while exercises and examples are provided throughout.

Features of this new edition include:

  • coverage of the Arabic script and alphabet

  • a chapter on Arabic handwriting

  • a guide to pronunciation

  • full examples throughout.

Ideal for independent learners and for classroom study, Arabic: An Essential Grammar is the complete reference guide to the most important aspects of modern literary Arabic.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Important notes
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. Chapter 1 Arabic script, transliteration and alphabet table
  10. Chapter 2 Pronunciation of consonants
  11. Chapter 3 Punctuation and handwriting
  12. Chapter 4 Vowels
  13. Chapter 5 Sukūn, šaddah, noun cases and nunation as the indefinite form
  14. Chapter 6 Long vowels, ᵓalif maqṣūrah, dagger or miniature ᵓalif, word stress and syllable structure
  15. Chapter 7 Hamzah (hamzatu l-qaṭˁi) and the maddah sign
  16. Chapter 8 Definite article .. أَلْ ᵓal.., nominal sentences, verbal sentences, word order and adjectives
  17. Chapter 9 Sun letters, moon letters, and hamzatu l-waṣli (waṣlah)
  18. Chapter 10 Gender
  19. Chapter 11 Conjunctions, prepositions and the particle حَتَّى ḥattā
  20. Chapter 12 ᵓIḍāfah construction (genitive attribute) and the five nouns
  21. Chapter 13 Numbers: dual and plural
  22. Chapter 14 Perfect tense verbs, root and radicals, triliteral verbs and word order
  23. Chapter 15 Separate personal pronouns and suffix pronouns
  24. Chapter 16 Demonstrative, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns ( بَعْضٌ baˁḍun)
  25. Chapter 17 Imperfect tense verbs in the indicative and word order
  26. Chapter 18 Derived verb forms, roots (stems) and radicals, transitive and intransitive verbs
  27. Chapter 19 Passive verbs
  28. Chapter 20 Rules for writing the hamzah (hamzatu l-qaṭˁi)
  29. Chapter 21 Broken (internal) plurals and collective nouns
  30. Chapter 22 Triptotes and diptotes
  31. Chapter 23 Participles, verbal nouns (maṣdar), nouns of place, time and instrument
  32. Chapter 24 Interrogative particles, pronouns and vocative particles
  33. Chapter 25 Adjectival patterns, relative adjectives (nisbah), comparatives, superlatives and diminutives
  34. Chapter 26 ᵓInna إِنَّ , kāna كَانَ and their sister-words
  35. Chapter 27 Relative pronouns and relative clauses
  36. Chapter 28 Moods: subjunctive, jussive and imperative
  37. Chapter 29 Doubled verbs (mediae geminatae) and quadriliteral verbs
  38. Chapter 30 Verbs with hamzah
  39. Chapter 31 Verbs with a weak initial radical
  40. Chapter 32 Verbs with a weak middle radical
  41. Chapter 33 Verbs with a weak final radical, doubly weak verbs and weak verbs with hamzah
  42. Chapter 34 Cardinal numbers
  43. Chapter 35 Ordinal numbers, fractions, expressions of time and calendars
  44. Chapter 36 Exception
  45. Chapter 37 Expressions of wonder, the copula لَيْسَ laysa, and special usages of the preposition بِ bi..
  46. Chapter 38 Adverbs, absolute or inner object, ḥāl (circumstantial clause) and tamyīz (accusative of specification)
  47. Chapter 39 Conditional sentences
  48. Appendix 1 Tables of the ten verb forms
  49. Appendix 2 Verb conjugation paradigms
  50. Index