Introduction to Modern Arabic

Name: Introduction to Modern Arabic
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ISBN: 9780486428703

ISBN-10: 0486428702

ISBN-13: 9780486428703

Edition: 2003

Authors: Farhat J. Ziadeh, R. Bayly Winder

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Description:

This guide's focus is modern literary Arabic, particularly the style employed by newspapers. The authors, experienced teachers, begin each chapter with a text embodying the points to be discussed. The carefully chosen vocabulary terms are those that arise most often in spoken and written Arabic, and a vocabulary list appears in the appendix.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



The Alphabet: Transliteration and Pronunciation. The Numberals



Vowels and Letters in Connected Form



Accent and Shaddah



Long Vowels and Diphthongs



Hamzah and Three Types of Long Alif



The Definite Article. Sun Letters. Waslah. Nunation. Accent. Miscellaneous



The Arabic Language in General



Nominal Sentences: Subject and Predicate



Gender



The Construct Phrase



Adjectives. Collectives



Pronouns



Prepositions and Conjunctions



Comparative and Superlative. Copula. Diptotes



Verbs. Verbal Sentences. Subject and Object of Verb



Relative Pronouns. Adverbs. [characters not reproducible] and Its "Sisters"



The Derived Forms of the Verb



Weak Verbs in the Perfect. Subordinate Conjunctions



Masdars



Participles. [characters not reproducible] and Its Sisters. Apposition



Nouns of Instrument. Nouns of Place and Time. Emphatic Nouns. Diminutives. Abstract Nisbahs



The Dual



Perfect Verbs in the Plural. Sound Plural Nouns



The Imperfect. The Doubled Verb



Broken Plurals. Other Diptotes. Other Feminine Endings



Review



Weak Verbs in the Imperfect



Participles and Masdars of Weak Verbs. Adverb of Purpose



Jussive. Subjunctive. Interrogative



The Imperative



The Passive



Accusatives in General



The Numerals



Quadrilateral Verbs. Conditional Sentences



Potpourri



Paradigms



Verbs and Their Prepositions


English-Arabic Vocabulary


Arabic-English Vocabulary


English Index


Arabic Index