الْجُوعُ وَفَيْرُوسُ كُورُونَا يَقْتُلَانِ أَطْفَالَ الْيَمَنِ قَالَتْ مُنَظَّمَةُ اليُونِيسِفِ إِنَّ أَطْفَالَ اليَمَنِ سَوْفَ يَمُوتُونَ مِنَ الجُوعِ. وَسَبَبُ هَذَا الجُوعِ هُوَ نَقْصُ المُسَاعَدَاتِ الإِنْسَانِيَةِ. وَقَدْ نَقُصَتْ هَذِهِ المُسَاعَدَاتُ بِسَبَبِ فَيْرُوسِ كُورُونَا. وَقَالَتِ المُنَظَّمَةُ إِنَّهَا تَحْتَاجُ إِلَى نِصْفِ مِلْيَارِ دُولَارٍ أَمْرِيكِيٍّ. بِ…

What is shadda? What is shadda? shadda is a diacritical mark that is indicated by the mark ( ـّ ). It means the doubling of a consonant. In other words, the consonant over which it is placed is to be sounded/uttered twice without inserting a short vowel (i.e.  fatha  ـَ , kasra  ـِ , or dhamma  ـُ ), in between. So, instead of writing the same consonant twice, we write it only…

مُوْ صَلَاح .. كَبِيْر هَذَا العَالَم نَشَرَتْ مَجَلَّةُ "فِرَانْس فُوتْبُول" خَبَرًا عَنْ اللَّاعِبِ المِصْرِي مُحَمَّد صَلَاح. وَصَفَتِ المَجْلَة مُحَمَّد صَلَاح بِأَنَّهُ "كَبِيْر هَذَا العَالم." وَتَوَقَّعَتِ المَجِلَّة أَنْ  يَكُوْنَ مُحَمَّد صَلَاح نَجْمُ بُطُوْلَة كَأْس أُمَم إِفْرِيقِيَا 2019. بُطُوْلَةُ كَاْسِ أُمَم إِفْرِيقِيَا تَجْرِي مَرَّة كُلَّ عَامِيْن. ه…

َبَغْدَادُ سَتُرْسِلُ وَفْدَيْنِ إِلَى طَهْرَانَ وَوَاشِنْطُن قَالَ رَئِيْسُ الوُزَرَاء العِرَاقِي، عَادِل عَبْد المَهْدِي، إِنَّ بَغْدَاد سَتُرْسِل وَفْدًا إِلَى طَهْرَان وَوَفْدًا آخَر إِلَى وَاشِنْطُن. سَيُحَاوِل الوَفْدَان تَخْفِيْف الأَزْمَة بَيْن البَلَدَيْن. فِي عَام 2018، اِنْسَحَبَتْ أَمْرِيْكَا مِنَ الاِتِّفَاق النَّوَوِي. وَفِي بِدَايَة عَام 2019، قَال الرَّئ…

الْأَسْئِلَــــةُ الثَّلَاثَــــةُ We took this Arabic short story from a book written by Mohammed Al-Abrashi. The original story was written for native speakers of Arabic. It has been simplified, abridged, and slightly modified to make it suitable for learners of Arabic as an additional/foreign language. It is suitable for high-beginners and pre-intermediate learners. كَان…

What is alif al-wasl? What is alif al-wasl? alif al-wasl is the alif without hamza above or below it (i.e., ا not أ or إ). It always occurs at the beginning of the word. The word وَصْل wasl means ‘connection’. So, alif al-wasl is the ‘connective alif.’ It connects the word in which it occurs with the preceding word. Therefore, Arabic speech becomes more natural and connected. …

Simple Arabic Grammar Terms (1) Arabic grammar terms of the previous lessons are listed and explained. Besides the explanation of the terms, examples are given. The noun in Arabic is a word that can be a subject of a verb فَاعِل, a topic of a nominal sentence مُبْتَدَأ, a predicate of a nominal sentence خَبَر, an object of a verb مَفْعُول, or an object of a preposit…

The Basic Present Verbal Sentence in Arabic Similar to the basic past verbal sentence, the basic present verbal sentence in Arabic الْجُمْلَةُ الْفِعْلِيَّةُ الْبَسِيطَةُ is composed of a verb فِعْل, a subject فَاعِل, and an object مَفْعُول. The object can be optional, depending on the type of the verb. It always starts with the verb. The verb can be intransitive لَازِم or tra…

The Basic Past Verbal Sentence in Arabic The basic past verbal sentence in Arabic الْجُمْلَةُ الْفِعْلِيَّةُ الْبَسِيطَة can be a word or a group of words that express a completed action. It starts with a verb فِعْل which is always followed by a subject فَاعِل (i.e. the doer of the action). If the verb is intransitive لَازِم, it and the subject form a complete meaning. If the …

 Arabic Verb Types Familiarity with Arabic verb types is important for correct verb conjugation and usage. These types are based on the structure of the verb root, the component letters of the verb root, whether the verb requires an object, and the tense or time of verb. Verb Root Structure: (1) The Simple Verb الْفِعْلُ الْمُجَرَّد: The verbs in (أ) are…

50 Common Arabic Regular Verbs 50 Common Arabic regular verbs are listed below. These verbs are regular (strong) because their root form does not change while adding pronominal suffixes or prefixes to them. Based on the letters they are composed of, verbs الْأَفْعَال in Arabic are classified into regular (strong) and irregular (weak). The regular are the verbs that do not incl…

Basic Word Formation in Arabic Word formation in Arabic is the process of creating new words by means of adding prefixes, suffixes, infixes, or changing the diacritical marks in the word roots. Take the Arabic word root كَتَبَ 'he wrote' which is a verb. By adding the prefix مَـ to it and changing the short vowels over the كـ and ـب, it becomes مَكْتَبٌ 'an office' which is a …

Arabic Cursive Writing (2) One characteristic of Arabic that makes its writing easy is that it is a phonetic language. That is, there is generally a one-to-one correspondence between the spoken form and the written form. In other words, there are no silent letters as is the case with English and French. This is especially true when writing isolated words. However, in writing n…

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (43) Read the Story الْفَتَاةُ الْكَسُولَةُ وَالْمَلِكَةُ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (42) Read the Story الْأَمِيرَةُ وَالشَّحَّاذُ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (40) Read the Story الْحَيَّةُ الْبَيْضَاءُ and answer the following questions.

Easy Arabic News Questions (33) Read the article تِرَمْبُ يُعْلِنُ أَنَّ إِيْرَانَ سَوْفَ تَتَحَمَّلُ مَسْؤُولِيَّةَ هُجُومِ الْحُوثِيِّينَ and answer the following questions.

Attached pronouns in Arabic are the pronouns that we attach to verbs, nouns, prepositions, or particles. Generally speaking, pronouns in Arabic are separate, attached, or implicit (i.e. implied or not overt). The separate pronouns  in Arabic are similar to the subject pronouns found in most world languages in addition to the dual and feminine forms that exist in Arabic. As for …

Arabic is a right-to-left cursive language. This short e-book "Ibnulyemen Arabic Alphabet and Cursive Writing" typographically shows how the Arabic letters are connected to to form words. There are twenty-eight letters in Arabic. Each letter has four shapes: at the beginning of the word, in the middle of the word, at the end of the word, and in isolation. This, as a result, see…

This is a short e-book of eleven short stories written in simplified Arabic. The original versions of these stories were written by Kamel Kilani and Mohammed Al-Abrashi, both Egyptian writers. They are fairly long and meant for native speakers of Arabic. The wording and structures of these stories have been tweaked and simplified to make them suitable for (advanced) beginner le…

Attached pronouns in Arabic are pronominal suffixes; for each separate pronoun there is a corresponding attached pronoun. These pronominal suffixes are are attached to nouns, prepositions, and verbs. With nouns, they function as possessive pronouns. With preposition, they function as object of prepositions. With verbs, they function as either subjects or objects.  In the table …