LESSON NOTES

Beginner #14
Haircut
CONTENTS
2 Arabic
2 Vowelled Arabic
2 Romanization
3 English
3 Vocabulary
4 Sample Sentences
4 Grammar
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ARABIC
: .1
. : .2
. ! : .3
: .4
. . : .5
VOWELLED ARABIC
: .1
. : .2
. ! : .3
: .4
. . : .5
ROMANIZATION
1.
NADIA: hal tistaTiiciin quS shacrii 'aqSar bi-qaliil?
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MUSAFIFATU
ASH-SHACR:
Hasanan. haakadha?
3.
NADIA: laa, 'itrukihi 'aTwal min dhaalika bi-qaliil.
4.
MUSAFIFATU
ASH-SHACR:
hal haadha 'afDal?
5.
NADIA: nacam. 'uHibuhu haakadha 'akthar.
ENGLISH
1.
NADIA: Can you cut my hair just a little shorter?
2.
HAIRDRESSER: Sure. Like this?
3.
NADIA: No ! Keep it a little longer than that.
4.
HAIRDRESSER: Is this better?
5.
NADIA: Yes. I like it like this more.
VOCABULARY
Ar abi c Romani zati on Engli sh Class Gender

qaSSu to cut verb

sha
c
r
hair noun masculine

'aqSar shorter adjective

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haakadha like this

taraka he left verb

'aTwal longer adjective

afal better adjective

'uHib love expression

akar min more than phrase
SAMPLE SENTENCES
.
an arifu maknan afal.

I know a better place .

lraul abba lmar'a

The man loved the woman.
.
laday akar min widah.

I have more than one.
GRAMMAR
When you want to compare how tall two people are, you use special forms of the adjective
"tall". For example:
Steve is tall.
John is taller than Steve.
Adam is the tallest.
In English the new forms are created by adding suffixes: -er for the comparative and -est for
the superlative form.
Arabic changes the pattern of vowels in the adjective to make the comparative and
superlative
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forms.
Many adjectives have the form: C
1
aC
2
iiC
3
Their comparative forms use the pattern: 'aC
1
C
2
aC
3
.Steve Tawiil .
.John 'aTwal min Steve .
.Adam al-'aTwal .