ARABIC

UNIT 1

There are 3 kinds of words in Arabic.

1) : A word with a tense: past, present or future
2) : Could be a person, place, thing, idea, adjective, adverb and
MORE.
3) : A word that makes no sense if there isnt a word after it.
An

has

4 properties:

1) Status
2) Gender
3) Number
4) Type
STATUS
Status is all about what a word is doing in the sentence. There are three
kinds of statuses:
1) ( Raf) : the DOER status
Doer status is given to the doer of the and answers the question, who
did the ?.
2) ( Nasb) : the DETAIL status
Detail status refers to details of the and answers additional questions
related to the like who, what, where, when, why and how.
3) ( Jarr) : the after of status
After of status words dont answer questions related to the itself. Its
easy to spot these words in cases like: Messenger of Allah SWT.
Sometimes, the word of isnt as obvious and the words need to be
rearranged so you can spot it.
Recognising the status
People Plural

Pair

Single

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Raf

Nasb

Jarr

If we add a single harakah, or one sound, to the end of a singular ism, we

can determine if its Raf, Nasb or Jarr status. These are known as sound
endings. For pair or people plural Isms, we add a few letters to the end of
the word. Thats called an ending combination.
Whenever you are trying to determine the status of an Ism, you have to ask
yourself, Is this an ending sound or ending combination? You should
ALWAYS check for ending combinations first.
Status of feminine Isms
Feminine Plural

Feminine Pair

Feminine Singular

Raf

Nasb

Jarr

Be careful not to mistake the feminine plural combination endings with

ending sounds.
PRONOUNS ARE WEIRD.
Heavy vs Light
All the words in the charts above are considered FAT or HEAVY. When you
say the chart aloud, you will notice that all the words end in an n sound,
even if they dont have a at the end.
To make a word LIGHT, and not HEAVY, the extra n sound is taken off.
Here is the light version of the charts above.

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People Plural

Pair

Single

Raf

Nasb

Jarr

Feminine Plural

Feminine Pair

Feminine Singular

Raf

Nasb

Jarr

For the feminine plural combination dont take the off. We are only
concerned about removing the extra n sound, not .
Normally a word should have heavy status. Light isms are suspicious. if a
word is light, it needs to have a reason to be so. There are four reasons
that an ism can be light:
1.
2.
3.
4.
A word must have one of these four reasons to be light.
Flexibility