Standard Arabic
Standard Arabic
Günther Krahl, Universität Leipzig
Wolfgang Reuschel, Universität Leipzig
£50.00
GBPThis book presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning students of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), providing an essential grounding for successful communication with speakers of the many colloquial varieties. This long-established and successful text has been completely revised with the needs of English-speaking learners especially in mind, and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
• Step-by-step guide to understanding written and spoken texts
• Develops conversational ability as well as reading and writing skills
• Arabic-English Glossary containing 2600 entries
• Fresh texts and dialogues containing up-to-date data on the Middle East and North Africa
• Includes Arab folklore, customs, proverbs, and short essays on contemporary topics
• Grammatical terms also given in Arabic enabling students to attend language courses in Arab countries
• Provides a wide variety of exercises and drills to reinforce grammar points, vocabulary learning and communicative strategies
• Includes a key to the exercises
• Accompanying cassettes are also available separately
- A comprehesive course for beginners presenting the basic grammar, vocabulary and phraseology of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), with a focus on development of speaking skills
- Grammatical terms are also given in Arabic, enabling student to attend language courses in Arab countries, and also offering essential foundations for progressing to learn Arabic dialects
- Accompanying cassettes are also available separately
Product details
August 2000Paperback
9780521774659
654 pages
248 × 174 × 42 mm
1.28kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Lesson 1. The alphabet (pronunciation and writing)
- Lesson 2. Article
- Gender
- The equational sentence
- Agreement in gender
- Lesson 3. Number
- The personal pronoun
- The noun and the adjective
- The adjective
- Lesson 4. Radical, root, pattern
- The broken plural
- Declension and nunation
- Stress
- Prepositions
- Lesson 5. The perfect tense
- The verbal sentence
- The objective clause
- The Nisba-ending
- Lesson 6. The genitive construction
- Affixed pronouns
- Definiteness (summary)
- The adverb
- Lesson 7. The imperfect tense
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Diptotes
- Lesson 8. Subjunctive and jussive
- The imperative
- Negation
- Lesson 9. The dual
- The numerals 1 and 2
- 'How much/many'
- The names of the months
- Lesson 10. Cardinal numerals
- The year
- Lesson 11. The perfect tense of verbs
- Word order and the subject of the sentence
- Lesson 12. The imperfect tense of verbs
- Subjunctive and jussive of verbs
- The imperative of verbs
- The verbs
- Lesson 13. Temporal auxiliary verbs
- Lesson 14. Forms II, III and IV of the verb
- The attributive relative clause
- Lesson 15. Forms II, III and IV of verbs continued
- The nominal relative clause
- Lesson 16. Ordinal numbers
- Dates
- The time
- Numeral adverbs
- Fractional numbers
- Numeral adverbs of reiteration
- Decimal numbers
- Lesson 17. Forms V and VI of the verb
- Word order
- Genitive constructions
- Lesson 18. Forms VII, VIII and X of the verb
- Lesson 19. The passive voice
- About the construction of doubly transitive verbs
- Some characteristic features of the derived forms
- Lesson 20. The collective
- Names of nationalities
- The feminine Nisba
- Lesson 21. The participle
- Patterns of the participle
- The usage of the participles
- Shortened relative clauses
- The participle as predicate
- The False Idafa
- Participles and adjectives as 1st or 2nd term of the Idafa
- Impersonal expressions
- Lesson 22. The infinitive
- The use
- The infinitive instead of a subordinate clause
- Functional verbs
- Functional verbs instead of passive constructions
- Adverb and adverbial constructions
- The usage
- The cognate accusative
- Lesson 23. Subordinate clauses: a survey
- Temporal clauses
- Lesson 24. Verbs R2=R3
- Verbs with Hamza
- The spelling of Hamza
- Clauses of reason
- Lesson 25. The pattern
- The elative as positive
- The elative as comparative
- The elative as superlative
- Common elatives
- Specification
- Lesson 26. Conditional sentences
- The real conditional sentence
- The unreal conditional sentence
- The concessive clause
- Lesson 27. Exceptives
- Other exceptive particles
- Diminutives
- Lesson 28. The Hal-accusative
- The Hal-clause
- Survey of use of the accusative
- Exclamations in the accusative.
