LESSON TWENTY SEVEN: Expressing time

Often when words are expressing about time, they come in the “a case” with two fathas, this is because their function is like that of an adverb.
Some examples are:قريبا
soon
سابفا
previously
زمنا
for some time/for a long time
طويلا
for a long time
A point to note about these example words is that they should not be placed at the start of [...]

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LESSON TWENTY SIX: Initial waw verbs

Verbs in which the first root letter is waw و are known as “initial waw verbs” and are subject to certain phonetic changes.
In the past tense they are conjugated normally, the irregularity occurs in the present tense. In this tense, the waw is dropped in the conjugation of form 1. The most common vowel sound [...]

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Ila kulli muslimah…

الإهــــــداء
إلى كلِّ مسلمةٍ رضيت بالله ربّـاً ، وبالإسلامِ ديناً ، وبمحمدٍ رسولاً
إلى كلِّ فتاةٍ سلكت طريق الحقِّ ، وحملت رسالة الصدقِ ،
إلى كلِّ مربيةٍ جاهدت بكلمتها ، وحافظت على قِيَمِها ، وزكت نفسها
إلى كلِّ أمٍ ربَّت أبناءها على التقوى ، وأنشأتهم على السُّنّة ، وحببت إليهم الفضيلة
إلى كلِّ مهمومةٍ حزينةٍ
اسعدي وافرحي [...]

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Hollow Verbs

Verbs in which the middle root letter is waw or ya و ي
Are traditionally known as “hollow verbs” and are subject to certain phonetic changes.
In the past tense, this “weak letter” is usually replaced by an Alif, so that we could describe this using the pattern:
فالَ
for example you will often come across these common verbs [...]

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Except

The main words which can be used to make exceptions are :
سوى
siwaa
إلا
ilaa
Which are basically synomymous. The most famous example which every Muslim will no doubt be familiar with is our declaration:
لا إلهَ إلا الله
There is no god except Allah.
Some other examples made up by me :
ما جاء الأولادُ إلا أحمدُ
maa jaa’a al awlaadu ilaa Ahmad
The [...]

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Talking about food

Assalaamu alaykum. This time we are not going to cover a grammatical point, but rather we are going to learn some vocab and read some conversations about everyone’s favourite topic – food – and through this will we be revising some of the structures and points previously learned insha allah.
Read the following sentences and the [...]

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Negatives

In Arabic we have different words to negate sentences in the past, present and future. Negating simply means to change the meaning to include “not” eg:
Ahmed likes dogs
Ahmed does not like dogs – this is a negation of the above sentence

Present tense – Laa
the present tense negater is لا. it comes before the verb which [...]

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Verb Forms 1 and 2

There are ten forms of Arabic Verbs. This means that when you take the three root letters, you may be able to use them in some of the ten different patterns. (All ten patterns are unlikely to be available for one verb! )
These patterns are useful, as they are quite regular so if you [...]

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