Introduction to Arabic Grammar

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“Introduction to Arabic Grammar” is an online course which will give students a foundational understanding of all of the basic grammatical structures of Arabic in 20 lessons. This course will shed light on proper Arabic inflection as well as facilitate a comprehensive view of the Arabic case system: nominative, accusative, genitive, and jussive. Students will delve into the various shades of meaning lent to nouns by the different cases. This course will also explore the many ways active participles and verbs affect the meaning of nouns to give them different shades of meaning.

 

Recommended Readings:

  • “Modern Standard Arabic Grammar: A Learner’s Guide” by Mohammad T. Alhawary
  • Lesson 1: Parts of Speech and Types of Sentences
  • Lesson 2: Signs of Nouns, Verbs, and Participles, Personal Pronouns and Prepositions
  • Lesson 3: Particles that Resemble Verbs, Kaana and its Sisters, and Declinable and Indeclinable Words
  • Lesson 4: Personal Pronouns
  • Lesson 5: Relative Pronouns and Demonstrative Nouns
  • Lesson 6: Nouns with the Meanings of Verbs and Adverbs
  • Lesson 7: Types of Declinable Nouns
  • Lesson 8: Diminutive Nouns, Definite and Indefinite Nouns, and Masculine and Feminine Nouns
  • Lesson 9: Types of Plurals
  • Lesson 10: The Marfu'aat
  • Lesson 11: The Mansubaat
  • Lesson 12: Numerals
  • Lesson 13: Exceptions
  • Lesson 14: Adjectives and Emphasis
  • Lesson 15: Substitutes and Conjunctions
  • Lesson 16: Governing Particles
  • Lesson 17: Governing Verbs
  • Lesson 18: Governing Nouns
  • Lesson 19: Passive Participles, Comparatives and Superlatives, and Infinite Nouns
  • Lesson 20: Non-Governing Particles

Instructor

Free

Instructor: Shaykh Azhar Nasser

Course Level: Intermediate

Course Status: Prerecorded