Thursday, February 27, 2014

Class #4 Broken Plural

Broken Plurals are divided into
Non Human are always treated as Singular/Feminine
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Human (Jinn, Angels)
Divided Into
Broken always treated as Singular/Feminine
Sound can be either Musucline/Pural or Singular/Feminine

Friday, February 21, 2014

Class #3 Flexibility in Status

Heavy and Light

4 things makes a word light

  • Mudaf
  • Special Laam
  • Partially Flexible
  • One be called

Flexibility in 3 different form

Fully Flexible
  • default status
  • can be rafa, nasb, jar
  • can be both light and heavy

Partially Flexible

  • can't be heavy
  • can't take Kasra

Not Flexible

  • only takes one form

How to determine flexibility


How to determine flexibility
Non Flex Partially Flex (no Kasra) Fully Flex
alif maqṣūra (الألف المقصورة) ( ﻯ ) Non Arab Names 3 letter non Arab names/places
Connector الذي, التي unique names If name of place have Al (Al-chin)
TBD Places
Certain Plurals
Certain Adjective
Comparative, Color, body defects




Class #2 Study by status and number table

Few Rules: When word start with أل it does NOT taken tanween at the end.



Number (عدد ʻadad)
Plural جمع jamaʻ Pair مثنى mufrad Singular مفرد mufrad Status
oona aani un Rafa رفع
eena ayni an Nasab النَّصْبُ
eena ayni in Jar الْجَرُّ

Example using صديق

Number (عدد ʻadad)
Plural جمع jamaʻ Pair مثنى mufrad Singular مفرد mufrad Status
Saadikuuna Saadikani Saadikun Rafa رفع
Saadikina Saadikaini Saadikan Nasab النَّصْبُ
Saadikina Saadikaini Saadikin Jar الْجَرُّ

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Arabic 102 Class #1 Ismun (super noun) اسم


There are 3 types of words in Arabic.

  • Ismun (super noun) اسم 
  • Fi'lun (action word/verb) فعل 
  • Harfun (connector/letters) حرف

Ismun (super noun) اسم 

  • consist of 
  • name
  • place
  • Adj
  • Adv
  • Thing
  • Idea
There are 4 properties of any اسم
Status:

Rafa رفع 

Nasab النَّصْبُ
Jar الْجَرُّ

Number (عدد ʻadad):
Singular مفرد mufrad
Pair مثنى mufrad
Plural  جمع ǧamʻ

Gender (جنس ǧins):
Masculine مذكر muḏakkar
Feminine مؤنث muʼannaṯ

Type:
Common
Proper