Arabic grammar lessons for beginners

Your first sentence. What is this? Who is this?

Point to things near you and further away.

Make nouns definite and describe them. Sun and moon letters.

Ask where things are and answer with prepositions.

Masculine and feminine nouns, and the ة ending.

Join two nouns to show who owns what.

Talk about yourself and other people.

Add endings to say my, your, his and her.

Adjectives come after the noun and match it.

Plurals with endings, broken plurals, and هٰؤُلَاءِ.

Past tense verbs and their endings.

Present tense verbs, and how to say “not”.

عِنْدَ and مَعَ with the endings from Lesson 8.

Make a sentence negative with لَيْسَ.

Arabic has a special form for exactly two.

Numbers 3 to 10 with nouns, and asking كَمْ.

Commands such as sit down, write and open, and saying “don’t”.

Will and won’t with سَـ, سَوْفَ and لَنْ.

The negative past with مَا and لَمْ.

All the main question words in one place.

إِنَّ, لٰكِنَّ and لِأَنَّ change the ending of the next noun.

The أَفْعَلُ pattern for “-er” and “-est”.

الَّذِي, الَّتِي and الَّذِينَ.

Yesterday and tomorrow, and telling the time.

Put a sentence into the past with kaana.

Say what will not happen.

Tell someone not to do something.

Order words, and the seven days.

Short nouns that grow a long vowel.

Show wonder and admiration.

Join two verbs: want to, like to, can, must.

Red, blue, green… for masculine and feminine.

Eleven, twenty, twenty-five, a hundred.

Before the prayer, after the lesson, a week ago.

Make the doer and the thing done from a root.

Muharram to Dhul-Hijjah, and saying dates.

كَتَبْنَا، كَتَبْتُمْ، كَتَبُوا، كَتَبْنَ

نَكْتُبُ، تَكْتُبُونَ، يَكْتُبُونَ، يَكْتُبْنَ

Say what was done without saying who did it.

Every day, all the students, some of them.

O Muhammad, Teacher!, O people.

Everyone except Khalid; only one riyal.

لٰكِنَّ، كَأَنَّ، لَعَلَّ، لَيْتَ

أَصْبَحَ، صَارَ، مَا زَالَ، لَيْسَ

Say, sleep, sell, visit, stand.

Walk, call, forget, stay.

The noun for the action itself.

He came hurrying; I went on foot.

عَلَّمَ، دَرَّسَ، نَظَّفَ، رَتَّبَ

أَخْرَجَ، أَرْسَلَ، أَغْلَقَ، أَسْلَمَ

تَعَلَّمَ، تَكَلَّمَ، تَعَاوَنَ، تَقَابَلَ

اِجْتَمَعَ، اِنْتَظَرَ، اِسْتَغْفَرَ، اِسْتَقْبَلَ

I came to learn; we go to pray.

Names and plurals that never take tanween.

The prayer has begun; it may rain.

If he comes…; if you had studied…

Reply, think, love, count, show.

Eat, take, ask, read, command.

كَتَبَا، يَكْتُبَانِ، أَنْتُمَا، هُمَا

The patterns behind mosque, office, kitchen and key.

Travel, help, watch; it broke, it opened, it set off.

Arrive, find, stop, put: the w drops in the present.

No doubt, no problem, no god but Allah.

Where are you from? Nationalities and “related to” words.

Instructions for someone who isn’t “you”.

Older in age, a kilo of meat, twenty students.

I slept deeply, we were overjoyed, two prostrations.

I stood out of respect; he travelled seeking knowledge.

Praising and blaming in one word.

I almost forgot; the rain began to fall; perhaps you’ll succeed.

I gave the boy a book; I found the door closed.

A hill, a booklet, my dear son, just before Maghrib.

Pens, houses, men, ministers, keys: learn the shape, not each word.

Joining two events in time.

Wait until he comes; study so that you pass; even me.

Whoever strives finds; whatever you sow you reap.

Emphasis words that strengthen a noun.

By Allah, I will surely help you.