Arabic Grammar for Beginners: Contents and Reading Order

Arabic Grammar for Beginners · List of tables

قَوَاعِدُ اللُّغَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ لِلْمُبْتَدِئِينَ

Every lesson of the free beginners' course, in the order it is meant to be read. Start at the top and work down; each lesson assumes the ones before it.

1. Why Every Muslim Should Learn Qur'anic Arabic – 1.0
2. What Is Sarf? An Introduction to Qur'anic Arabic Grammar – 1.0a
3. How to Use the Beginners Grammar Course – 1.0b
4. Arabic Alphabet, Vowels and Transliteration Key – 1.1–1.3
5. The Three Kinds of Arabic Words: Noun, Verb and Particle – 2.3
6. Types of Nouns in Arabic – 3.0–3.1
7. The Four Properties of a Noun and I'rab (Flexibility) – 3.2–3.3
8. Definite Nouns and Personal Pronouns – 3.4a–c
9. Demonstratives, Relative Pronouns, Alif-Laam and the Vocative – 3.4d–h
10. Singular and Dual Nouns – 3.5a–b
11. Arabic Plurals: Sound and Broken – 3.5c
12. Incomplete Compounds (Murakkab Naqis) – 4.0
13. Descriptive and Demonstrative Compounds – 4.1a–b
14. The Genitive Compound (Idafah) – 4.1c
15. Attached Pronouns in the Genitive Compound – 4.1c1
16. The Possessive Compound and the Six Nouns – 4.1d–4.2
17. Arabic Sentences and the Nominal Sentence – 5.0–5.2
18. The Nominal Sentence: Subject and Predicate – 5.2
19. Compounds Inside Sentences, Questions and Negation – 5.3–5.6
20. Components of the Nominal Sentence – 5.4
21. The Interrogative Sentence: Asking Questions in Arabic – 5.5
22. The Negative Sentence – 5.6
23. Laa of Absolute Negation (Laa Nafi lil-Jins) – 5.7
24. The Vocative: Calling Someone in Arabic – 5.8
25. Emphasis in the Nominal Sentence – 5.9
26. Inna and Its Sisters: the Verb-like Particles – 5.10
27. Arabic Numbers: Rules for 1–10 and 11–99 – 6.1–6.3
28. Verb Basics, the Root and the Past Tense – 7.0–7.3
29. The Past Tense Verb Conjugated (Maadi) – 7.3
30. The Verbal Sentence and Its Object – 7.4–7.6
31. Prepositions, Negation, Questions and Qad with the Past Tense – 7.7–7.14
32. Turning a Verbal Sentence into a Nominal Sentence – 7.12
33. The Five Kinds of Object (Maf'ool) – 7.13
34. The Passive Past Tense (Maadi Majhool) – 7.14
35. The Imperfect Tense (Mudaari') – 8.1
36. The Imperfect Tense, Continued – 8.1b
37. Negating, Emphasising and Passivising the Imperfect – 8.2–8.6
38. The Six Baabs of Form I and the Jussive (Weak) Imperfect – 8.7–8.8
39. The Emphatic Imperfect, the Imperative and the Prohibition – 8.9–8.11
40. Arabic Particles: Active and Inactive – 9.0–9.2
41. Kaana and Its Sisters, and Laysa – 10.1–10.4
42. Irregular Nouns and Weak Verbs: the Basics – 11.0–11.2
43. Doubled Verbs (Mudaa'af) – 11.3
44. The Derived Verb Forms: an Overview – 12.1–12.2
45. Verb Form II (Fa''ala, Taf'eel) – 12.3
46. Verb Form III (Faa'ala, Mufaa'alah) – 12.4
47. Verb Form IV (Af'ala, If'aal) – 12.5
48. Verb Form V (Tafa''ala, Tafa''ul) – 12.6
49. Verb Form VI (Tafaa'ala, Tafaa'ul) – 12.7
50. Verb Form VII (Ifta'ala, Ifti'aal) – 12.8
51. Verb Form VIII (Infa'ala, Infi'aal) – 12.9
52. Verb Form X (Istaf'ala, Istif'aal) – 12.10
53. The Derived Nouns (Mushtaqqaat): an Overview – 13.0
54. The Active Participle (Ism al-Faa'il) – 13.1
55. The Passive Participle (Ism al-Maf'ool) – 13.2
56. Nouns of Time and Place (Ism al-Zarf) – 13.3
57. The Adjective Noun (Sifah Mushabbahah) – 13.4
58. The Comparative and Superlative (Ism al-Tafdeel) – 13.5
59. The Intensive Noun (Ism al-Mubaalaghah) – 13.6
60. The Diminutive Noun (Ism al-Tasgheer) – 13.7
61. The Noun of Instrument (Ism al-Aalah) – 13.8
62. The Verbal Noun (Masdar) – 13.9
63. Verbal Idioms: Verbs Whose Meaning Changes with the Preposition – 14
64. Worked Example: Analysing a Qur'anic Sentence – Appendix
65. A Short Summary of Nahw – Appendix