The all-in-one guide to mastery of Arabic grammar

Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Arabic if you are a beginner or a quick, thorough reference is you already have experience in the language. It offers a solid foundation of major verbal and grammatical concepts of the language, providing clear explanations of concepts and how they are similar, or very different, in Arabic and English.

Each unit is devoted to one topic, so you can find what you need and get focused instruction immediately. Concise yet thorough, the explanations are supported by numerous examples to help you master the different concepts. And for those tricky verbs, Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar includes a Verb Index of the most common verbs, cross-referenced with the abundant verb tables appearing throughout the book.

This book will give you all this:

¿ Concise explanations of verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and other grammar essentials

¿ Examples that reflect contemporary usage and real-life situations

¿ A high-frequency index to 400 Arabic verbs, cross-referenced to relevant sections in the book

New to this edition, twelve Authors' Tutorials that will help your understanding of the system of Arabic verb roots. These recordings are available as streaming audio through the McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app.

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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