Lesson 18 – الدَّرْسُ الثَّامِنَ عَشَرَ
Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ
- This is lesson eighteen of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In this lesson we will learn the following In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing):
- The dual form (الْمُثَنَّى) of the Arabic Nouns - i.e. the form that relates to two of something. This is very important within the Arabic language and is used frequently.
| English | Transliteration | Arabic | Sing. / Dual / Plural | Masc. / Fem. |
| The teacher (Singular) | /Al Mudarrisu/ | (Masc.) | ||
| Two teachers (Dual) | /Al Mudarrisāni/ | |||
| The teachers (Plural) | /Al Mudarrisūna/ | |||
| The teacher (Singular) | /Al Mudarrisatu/ | (Fem.) | ||
| Two teachers (Dual) | /Al Mudarrisatāni/ | |||
| The teachers (Plural) | /Al Mudarrisātu/ |
- We will also learn the dual form of the Demonstrative Pronouns for the near objects for both the masculine and the feminine objects (i.e. these and those):
| English | Transliteration | Arabic | Sing. / Dual / Plural | Masc. / Fem. |
| This (masculine) | /Hādhā/ | |||
| These (two) | /Hādhāni/ | |||
| These (all) | /Hā’ulā’i/ | |||
| This (feminine) | /Hādhihi/ | |||
| These (two) | /Hātāni/ | |||
| These all | /Hā’ulā’i/ |
- And we will learn the Dual form of the Personal Pronouns for the third person:
| English | Transliteration | Arabic | Sing. / Dual / Plural | Masc. / Fem. |
| He | /Howa/ | |||
| They (two) | /Humā/ | |||
| They all | /Hum/ | |||
| She | /Hiya/ | |||
| They (two) | /Humā/ | |||
| They all | /Hunna/ |
- We will also learn a new interrogative Article in this lesson In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing):
| English | Arabic |
| How many? |
Part
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10