Jane Wightwick - Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar

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Arabic Verbs and the Essentials of Grammar is intended for beginning and intermediate learners of Arabic. You could be studying in a group or by yourself. This guide covers most of what you will need to know about Arabic verbs during your study of modern Arabic, and also provides a useful summary of the main grammar points.

We are assuming a basic knowledge of the Arabic script as it is not possible to teach this skill within the parameters of this guide. However, to help you we have also included transliteration throughout, using a simplified system (see Appendix (i), ).

Arabic Verbs and the Essentials of Grammar also includes a comprehensive Verb Index listing 400 high-frequency Arabic Verbs (including all those in this book). The index will enable you to look up individual verbs in Arabic or English alphabetical order and find out their pronunciation, root letters and type. You will then be able to reference them to the relevant sections in this book.

This is a study aid rather than a course. However, there is progression in the two main parts of the book, or you can simply dip in to brush up on a particular area.

This third edition also includes companion audio Authors Tutorials. These are friendly talks which will help you to understand the system of Arabic roots, and introduce you to the variations that these can produce.

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We hope you find this guide a useful tool in your study of Arabic.

The key to understanding how Arabic grammar works is in its system of roots. Once you understand how roots work, you can start to identify which are the root letters of a word and understand the patterns they produce. You will then be able to form the different structures following the patterns and use your knowledge to pronounce words correctly and to guess at the meaning of vocabulary.

We can begin by looking at some English words:

necessary

unnecessary

necessitate

necessarily

necessity

As a speaker of English, you can see that these words are connected in meaning. You see the combination of letters necess and you know that this word is connected with the meaning of needing. You can recognize the extra letters on the beginning and end of the word as additional to the meaning: un- meaning not; the ending -ity showing that the word is a noun; -ly that it is an adverb, etc.

Now look at these Arabic words:

(kataba) he wrote

(kitaab) book

(maktab) office

(yaktub) he writes

(