LESSON NOTES

Basic Bootcamp #2 Basic Arabic Sentence Structure

CONTENTS
2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 Arabic English Romanization Vowelled Vocabulary Sample Sentences Vocabulary Phrase Usage Grammar Cultural Insight

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ENGLISH
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HALA: SIMON:

Hello. Im Hala. Im Egyptian. (female) Hello. Im Simon, Im English. (male)

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ROMANIZATION
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HALA: SIMON:

hlan , n Hlh , n mariyyh hlan , n Simon, n ingl z

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VOWELLED
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VOCABULARY
A r abic R omanization English C lass

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'ahlan n miriyyh 'ingl z

hello I / I am Egyptian English

interjection subject pronoun noun adjective

SAMPLE SENTENCES
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hlan! itfa al!

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n mabs ah al-nah rdah .

Hello! Please come in! (Egyptian Arabic)

I'm happy today. (Egyptian Arabic)

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n miriyyh min elq hirh. huwa 'ingaltraa.

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He is English.

I'm Egyptian from Cairo.

VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

All nationalities end with an [ee] sound for masculine and an [eyya] sound for feminine. [een] and [oun] are for plurals. For Example:
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- Libnn - Libnniyyh "Lebanese"

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- Sr - Sriyyh "Syrian"

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- Sud - Sudiyyh "Saudi"

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- Marib - Maribiyyh "Moroccan"

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- Kuwait - Kuwaitiyyh "Kuwaiti"

GRAMMAR
The Focus of This Lesson is Word Order "Hello. I'm Hala. I'm Egyptian."

The word order in Arabic is the same as in English: subject - verb - object. It can also be verb subject - object. However, this is less common. For Example:
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n drus alarabiyyh "I'm studying Arabic."

Note: There is no verb "to be" in this sentence. The verb "to be" does exist in Arabic, but it's only used in future, past, and habitual sentences. When using the language, you need to picture that it's there, since in many cases, where you visualize the verb "to be," is when the meaning of the sentence could change drastically.

CULTURAL INSIGHT

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Arabic Learners

Most Arabic learners are in the USA and Europe, however, Japan, China, and Russia are joining in with as much interest as the rest. It's required in many political careers, trading and commerce, education, and living in the Arabic countries, plus it helps having a big number of Arabic people living in other countries. Since, Arabic is a Semitic language, which means a background knowledge of Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish, it would be helpful in learning Arabic. Arabic is very different than English, however, as part of the changes that have happened recently, more foreign words, many which are from English, are used in the Arabic language. For example, most technology related words we say in English: computer, laptop, cell, mobile, CD, DVD. In Egyptian Arabic, we may use an English word in speech from time to time, for example, da kwayis. So ayza tany means, "That's good, so I want more," and the "so" is kept in English. Also, from the influence of media, for example, a word like "cancel" would be ana ha-cancel, which means, "I will cancel." This doesn't usually happen in Standard Arabic.

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