Rila il Bild al-Arab

Munther Younes is Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University, USA. He is the co-author of the Arabiyyat al-Naas textbook series and the author of the following books: The Routledge Introduction to Quranic Arabic, Kalila wa Dimna for Students of Arabic, The Integrated Approach to Arabic Instruction, and Charging Steeds or Maidens Doing Good Deeds: In search of the Original Quran, all published by Routledge.

Introduction New Letters and Numbers New Words Grammar - - - No verb "to be" in Arabic - The definite article al () The taa marbuuTa The construct and the taa marbuuTa ( ) - () Sun and moon letters More on the construct () Subject Grammar The nisba adjective More on (taa marbuuTa) Prefixes, Suffixes, and Stems Noun Stems, : Singular, dual, plural; The case system Tenses, gender, and agreement; Non-human Plural Nouns; Verb-Subject (Dis)agreement Possessive and object pronouns; Verb Stems ; The comparative ; Number-Noun Agreement, : ; Root Types: Sound, Assimilated, Hollow, and Doubled More on Root Types; Root Types and Verb Conjugations The Forms of the Arabic Verb; The skeleton; Forms I, II and V Lame Roots, Forms IV and VIII First root letter assimilation in Form VIII; Form VII; Passive Voice Forms III and X The Arabic (verbal noun) Form VI, More on the Arabic Case System; The Dual The Comparative/Superlative () Moods of the Arabic Verb (Basic Facts), Reading Arabic Poetry (with ) Person/Subject Markers (full paradigm), past and present Possessive and object pronouns; Negation ; More on Verb Stems and Forms Different functions of the prefix The Active Participle, the Passive Participle and the Verbal Noun Method of derivation of APs and PPs, Conjugation of Verbs Based on Defective Roots assimilation of , ex. Derivation (AP, PP, VN); How Knowledge of Roots, Verb Forms and Noun Patterns Helps You Learn Arabic Looking up words in the dictionary