Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Arabic root system
Part One: Arabic Verbs
2. Regular verbs: The basic tenses
3. Irregular verbs: Introduction
4. Irregular verbs: Verbs with waaw or yaa’ as a root letter
5. Irregular verbs: Doubled verbs
6. Irregular verbs: Verbs with hamza
7. Derived forms of verbs: Introduction
8. Derived forms II–IV
9. Derived forms V–VI
10. Derived forms VII–X
11. Essentials of making sentences with verbs
12. Verbs in the subjunctive
13. Verbs in the jussive (incl. the imperative)
14. Making verbs negative
15. Making verbs passive
16. Verbal nouns and other verbal constructions
17. Verbs in the dual
18. Verbs with four root letters (quadriliterals)
19. Some unusual common verbs
Part Two: Arabic Essentials of Grammar
20. The article and personal pronouns
21. Genders
22. Sentences without verbs
23. Describing things
24. Describing position (prepositions of place)
25. Plurals
26. Describing possession
27. Questions and relative clauses
28. The dual
Appendixes
(i) Arabic alphabet and pronunciation
(ii) Grammatical case endings
(iii)Numbers
Verb Index: 400 Arabic verbs for easy reference
Arabic–English
English–Arabic

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