Arabic: An Essential Grammar

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Taylor & Francis, 2007 - 355 sivua

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, this 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, and exercises and examples are provided throughout. The book is ideal for independent learners as well as for classroom study.

Features of this book include:

  • coverage of the Arabic script and alphabet
  • a chapter on Arabic handwriting
  • a guide to pronunciation
  • full examples throughout.
 

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1 Arabic script transliteration and alphabet table
1
2 Pronunciation of consonants
5
3 Punctuation and handwriting
9
4 Vowels
13
5 Sukūn šaddah noun cases and nunation as indefinite form
17
6 Long vowels כalif maqsūrah dagger or miniature כalif word stress and syllable structure
21
7 Hamzah hamzatu lqaţ כi and the maddah sign
26
8 Definite article أَلْ כal nominal sentences verbal sentences word order and adjectives
31
23 Participles verbal nouns maşdar nouns of place time and instrument
160
24 Interrogative particles and pronouns vocative particles
169
25 Adjectival patterns relative adjectives nisbah comparatives and superlatives diminutives
181
26 כInna إِنَّ and its sisters kāna كَانَ and its sisters
193
27 Relative pronouns and relative clauses
201
subjunctive jussive apocopatus and imperative
209
29 Doubled verbs mediae geminatae and quadriliteral verbs
218
30 Verbs with hamzah
224

9 Sun and moon letters hamzatu lwaşli waşlah
39
10 Gender
46
11 Conjunctions prepositions and the particle حَتَّى hattā
51
12 כIdāfah construction genitive attribute and the five nouns
61
dual and plural
70
14 Perfect tense verbs root and radicals triliteral verbs and word order
78
15 Separate personal pronouns and suffix pronouns
87
16 Demonstrative reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
98
17 Imperfect tense verb in the indicative and word order
106
18 Derived verb forms stems roots and radicals transitive and intransitive verbs
115
19 Passive verbs
128
20 Rules for writing the hamzah hamzatu lqaţi
135
21 Broken plurals and collective nouns
144
22 Triptotes and diptotes
151
31 Verbs with a weak initial radical
231
32 Verbs with a weak middle radical
237
33 Verbs with a weak final radical doubly weak verbs and weak verbs with hamzah
246
34 Cardinal numbers
256
35 Ordinal numbers fractions expressions of time and calendars
269
36 Exception
282
37 Verbs of wonder the negative copula لَيْسَ laysa verbs with special uses and some special uses of the preposition بِ bi
289
38 Adverbs and adverbials absolute or inner object hāl circumstantial clause and tamyiz accusative of specification
299
39 Conditional sentences
309
Appendix 1 Tables of verb forms
319
Appendix 2 Verb conjugation paradigms
328
Index
350
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Faruk Abu-Chacra is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Arabic at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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