ARABIC WORDS

Easy Arabic Language investigate the nature of arabic words. Arabic Words are divided into 3 groups. They are:

1. Nouns ....اسم

2. Verbs ..... فعل

3. Particle  ....حرف

A. Nouns atau "ismu" is the word that refer to name of a person,place, animals, or any living things or non living thing. For example:


بقرة  ---- baqaratun ---- a female cow
ثور ----- thurun   -----   male cow
جاموس ---- jaamusun ---- buffalo
 قطة  ----- qit to tun ----  female cat
دجاجة -----  da ja ja tun ---  hen - female chicken
ديك -----  di kun   ----  male chicken
شجرة ---- sha ja ra tun  -- a tree


Types of nouns
Basically the nouns are further divided into male or female:

1.muscline - مذكر   (mu zak ka run )
2. feminine -  مؤنث   (mu ann nas thun )

There is no definite indicator to show that a word is masculine, and as such all are considered masculine unless there are indicator that it is feminine. A word is considered feminine when you have the followings:
    1. a word that refer to female- e.g, mother ام,  , daughter  بنت, bride groom عروس   , female cow.

    2. the en of the word with ta' marbutah  ,  خادمة - a female servant.,    ابنة - a daughter,  كبيرة- big, جديدة - new,

    3. Name of a place  --- مصر  Egypt,

    4. name of body's organ which is normally in pairs. يد  - hands

    5. Any name ending with the letters  alif hamzah. --صحرة  -  desert,  صفراء - yellow,

    6. Name that is considered as feminine like   the earth  ارض , war, house, wind, the sun, fire- نار


ام,   بنت   ,عروس   ,   خادمة,   ابنة   , كبيرة  , جديدة مصر , يد ,,,رجل,, صحرة ,,صفراء ,  ارض ,  نار

More examples of Feminine words


ابرة - a needle
باخرة - a ship
تلاوة - reading
تفاحة - apple,
ثمرة --a fruit
حقيبة -- a beg,
سفينة -- a ship,
شفة  -- a lip
ضريرة -- small

Examples of Masculine Words --- مذكر
Door  --  باب
House --  بيت
Country --   بلد
Date --     تمر
Hill  ---      جبل

COUNTING TO TWO - DUAL

Learn Arabic Language can be fun. One of the area to be learned is mussanna. Musanna (المثنئ ) is the term used in Arabic to indicate the number of an object is two. In English, we use ' a car' to indicate one car and ' two cars' to show that there number of cars is two.However, the Arabic grammar works slightly different. Arabic has three groups instead of two for English ( Singular and Plural.). The Arabic groupings are as follows:

1. One - Singular مفرد

e.g one car................. سيارة....sayyarah.....

      one book...........كتاب   ......kitab

2. Two - two -      المثنئ

e.g two cars................سيارتان....... sayyaratin

     two books............كتابان........... kitabanin

3. three and more - jama' - جمع

To change a singular ( مفرد ) is by putting the suffix   ان or ون . The last    ن to be read with kasrah (like having the letter i and the marking is at the bottom.

e.g   ا  

    در١جة     a bicycles

   در١جةان    two bicycles

  قلم        a pen

  قلمان    two pens

What is considered not a Mussanna  ( الثني )

1.Word to Indicate one... mufrad... مفرد

2. Word to indicate many... jama' ... جمع

3. Word to indicate proper nouns, (nama Khas), name of person, plac.

  e.g If a person's name is Sha'ban... it is not a mussanna even though the ending letters are alif and nun.

اشعبان - not the alif and nun at the end, but because it is the name of a person, it is not considered mussanna. Hope this sharing of learning arabic language is beneficial.

Lesson 1 Arabic Alphabet

easy arabic
الدرس الاول

الاحرف العربية

There are 28 letters in Arabic compared to 26 in the English alphabet. Some of the letters have similar sound to that of English, while some may not. Although there are similarity, it is not an exact match.

Another characteristic of Arabic letters are that, the letters can be spelled and the students are expected to be able to spelled it. This is because the spelling has the significant to its sound.

1. alif ا
2. ba ب
3. ta ت
4. tha ث
5. jim ج
6. ha ح
7. kha خ
8. dal د
9. dhal ذ
10.ra ر
11.zay ز
12. sin س
13. shin ش
14. sad ص
15.dad ض
16.tha ط
17.zha ظ
18. ain ع
19. ghain غ
20. fa ف
21. qaf ق
22. kaf ك
23. lam ل
24. mim م
25. nun ن
26. ha ه
27. waw و
28. ya ي
29. hamzah ء


joharahman

Learn Arabic Language can be fun. One of the area to be learned is mussanna. Musanna (المثنئ ) is the term used in Arabic to indicate the number of an object is two. In English, we use ' a car' to indicate one car and ' two cars' to show that there number of cars is two.However, the Arabic grammar works slightly different. Arabic has three groups instead of two for English ( Singular and Plural.). The Arabic groupings are as follows:

1. One - Singular مفرد
e.g one car................. سيارة....sayyarah.....
      one book...........كتاب   ......kitab

2. Two - two -      المثنئ
e.g two cars................سيارتان....... sayyaratin
     two books............كتابان........... kitabanin

3. three and more - jama' - جمع


To change a singular ( مفرد ) is by putting the suffix   ان or ون . The last    ن to be read with kasrah (like having the letter i and the marking is at the bottom.

e.g   ا  
    در١جة     a bicycles
   در١جةان    two bicycles

  قلم        a pen
  قلمان    two pens

What is considered not a Mussanna  ( الثني )
1.Word to Indicate one... mufrad... مفرد
2. Word to indicate many... jama' ... جمع
3. Word to indicate proper nouns, (nama Khas), name of person, plac.
  e.g If a person's name is Sha'ban... it is not a mussanna even though the ending letters are alif and nun.
اشعبان - not the alif and nun at the end, but because it is the name of a person, it is not considered mussanna. Hope this sharing of learning arabic language is beneficial.