Arabic Vocabulary Lesson 1: Beginner-Level Course

1. Tuesday @ 22:00 (KSA time) Beginner Level Course Miraathpublications.net

2. VOCABULARY – LESSON 1 A house – بيت A mosque – مسجد A door – باب A book – كتاب A pen – قلم A key – مفتاح A bed – سرير A desk - مكتب

3. VOCABULARY – LESSON 1 A chair - كرسي A shirt - قميص A Doctor - طبيب A star - نجم A boy – ولد A student – طالب A man – رجل

4. VOCABULARY – LESSON 1 A dog - كلب A cat - قط A donkey - حمار A horse - حصان A camel - جمل A rooster – ديك A teacher – مدرس Hand kerchief - منديل

5. Grammar - Lesson 1 هذا - ‘this ‘ Issm-ul-ishaara – demonstrative pronoun Is pronounced هاذا but written without the first Alif It is used to refer to objects that are near The word that follows is the noun (object) being referred to, e.g.: هذا كتاب : This is a book.

6. Grammar – Lesson 1 2. Arabic has no word equivalent to the English copula ‘is’ This can be demonstrated in the following example: ‘هذا كتاب’ So here the words for هذا and the predicate كتاب is being referred to without any copula. The literal translation of the above example would read: ‘this a book’ so the word ‘is’ can be implied in the above example to make the sentence read: ‘this is a book’.

7. Grammar – Lesson 1 • 3. There is no word in Arabic corresponding to ‘a’ in English as in: • ‘This is a book’ • The tanween or the double vowelsign the n-sound) at the end of Arabic nouns (kitaabu-n)ٌ is the Arabic • indefinite article that corresponds to the English ‘a/ an’.

8. Grammar – Lesson 1 ‘ما’ – When ‘’ما’ is placed before ‘هذا’ then the sentence is turned into a question and takes the meaning: ‘what is this?’ ‘أ’ - When ‘أ’ is placed before ‘هذا’ then the sentence is turned into a question and takes the meaning: ‘is this.....?’ ‘نعم’ – Yes ‘لا’ – No 7. ‘من’ - We use ‘من’ before ‘هذا’ when only asking about people e.g.: ‘ من هذا؟’ : ‘who is this?’

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