Treasures of Arabic Morphology

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These meanings include tense, voice, and added connotations such as the notion of seeking in the attached example.

In the latter case, -ya is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a long vowel or diphthong (e. Furthermore, it builds onto the ‘small charts’ (sarf sagheer) for these words and also provides other words for practice. Changes to the vowels in between the consonants, along with prefixes or suffixes, specify grammatical functions such as tense, person and number, in addition to changes in the meaning of the verb that embody grammatical concepts such as mood (e.Indeed, as in Arabic and other languages, possessive pronouns replaces them when there is not a valorization and a stress of the fact of possessing the item. Among the global characteristics of Arabic is that no less than 200 million people speak it in various parts of the world [ 1, 2], especially the Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

These suffixes are the same as the ones used for conjugation of some verbs, and represent the ending sound of the possessive articles. In the study of verbs we will learn how to derive various stem verbs of the same root verb by using the augmented letters. The identity of the oldest Arabic grammarian is disputed; some sources state that it was Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, who established diacritical marks and vowels for Arabic in the mid-600s, [1] Others have said that the earliest grammarian would have been Ibn Abi Ishaq (died AD 735/6, AH 117).When the relative pronoun serves a function other than the subject of the embedded clause, a resumptive pronoun is required: اَلَّرَجُلُ ٱلَّذِي تَكَلَّمْتُ مَعَهُ al-rajul(u) (a)lladhī takallamtu ma‘a- hu, literally "the man who I spoke with him".