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Dialectal Arabic

Dialectal or vernacular Arabic results from the fragmentation of 7th century Arabic and the fusion of the dialects resulting from military conquests and the mixing of populations of the South Arabian, Berber, African etc. languages. These dialectal varieties are extremely numerous today and persist throughout the Arab world. Dialectal Arabic is the language that each of the 290 million Arabic speakers uses throughout their lives, which conveys a whole popular, traditional, and contemporary culture. He is greatly devalued socially and is often perceived as “vulgar” or “bastardized”. It is therefore, an almost exclusively spoken language whose varieties are rarely incomprehensible among Arabic speakers.

Classical Arabic language

Classical Arabic, for its part, is a language diffused in all Arab countries, and it is this language that is taught all over the world. It is, therefore, a prestigious language associated with religion and writing, that is to say, literary culture, science and technology and administrative functions. Classical Arabic is also called Quranic Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Grammatical Arabic, or Eloquent Arabic. Very few Arabs in the world speak this variety of Arabic as their mother tongue. Thus, only 120 million people know classical Arabic as a second language. However, classical Arabic does not correspond to the language in which the Quran was written fourteen centuries ago, although the basic rules have not changed since that time. The Arabic language was born several centuries before the appearance of Islam.

Nonetheless, the modern classical Arabic used today has undergone certain modifications that began in the last decades of the 19th century, called the “Nahda period”, meaning “Renaissance”, a renaissance in the late 19th century. Political, cultural and religious. This movement was mainly the work of a group of intellectuals from Lebanon, then from Egypt and also from Syria and Palestine. These reformers set out to modernize the Arabic language by modifying and somewhat simplifying the original syntax of the 7th century, but above all by adding modern words such as “train”, “company”, “democracy”, “socialism”, etc. To do this, it was necessary to draw on the grammatical resources of Arabic, in particular, by resorting to the process of analogy (al-qiyas). Today, nearly 60% of modern vocabulary comes from this Reformed Arabic.

Classical Arabic has nevertheless retained its essential eloquent characteristics, which allow skilled speakers to indulge in true stylistic creations, hence the expression “eloquent Arabic”. While some very religious Arabs believe that, of all the languages, Arabic is the one with the vastest resources and the richest lexicon, others see it only as filler, verbosity or vain display. Perhaps this is why it is almost impossible to write and speak classical Arabic completely flawlessly. As much as dialect or vernacular Arabic can be a simple language to practice, classical Arabic can seem complex and difficult. This is what explains why no Arabic-speaking population has adopted it as their mother tongue.

All attempts to change and reform the classical Arabic language have failed due to protests from the tradition’s protectors. There is a certain mainstream in the Muslim world that recognizes that, of all the languages ​​in the world, only Arabic, “the sacred language of the Quran”, cannot be subject to revision. For some Arabs, touching the Arabic language would amount to undermining the Holy Quran. How, in fact, still understand the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the prophet if we change grammar and syntax rules? For some, calls for removing the current rules of Arabic grammar are “signs of the existence of the imperial-Zionist plot”.

Despite the controversies over the two major forms of Arabic – Vernacular Arabic and Classical Arabic – there are powerful historical and ideological ties between the two and many linguistic similarities. Thus, the alphabet letters are often the same, as is the order of the words or the syntax. However, the words and pronunciation can be very different as Classical Arabic loses all local dialect traces. This is why Arab communities have always considered that there is only one Arabic language. One writes only in classical Arabic, although the vernacular Arabic can theoretically be written. It is estimated that the illiteracy rate in the Arab world is around 50%, but it varies by country.

Five magnified nouns | الْأَسْمَاءُ الخَمْسَةُ المُكَبَّرَةُ

Monday, 01 March 2021 by al-dirassa
Some nouns are such that their three states (nominative, accusative and genitive) are denoted by letters. They are called the five magnified nouns in Arabic – الْأَسْمَاءُ الخَمْسَةُ المُكَبَّرَةُ. The nominative- المرفوع: is denoted by و The accusative المَنصوب: is denoted by ا the genitive المَجْرُور: is denoted by ى The following five nouns show
Five magnified nouns | الْأَسْمَاءُ الخَمْسَةُ المُكَبَّرَة in arabic
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Various unorthodox verbs in Arabic

Thursday, 25 February 2021 by al-dirassa
Various unorthodox verbs
1. The verb (not to be) – لَيْسَ   It is used only in the perfect tense and gives the meaning of the imperfect. Like كَانَ (noun or adjective) of لَيْسَ will be الْمَنْصُوبُ (accusative case). Past tense conjugation of لَيْسَ:     3rd person masculine   Singular Dual Plural لَيْسَ لَيْسَا لَيْسُوْا   3rd
The verbs of praise and blame in arabicThe verbs of wonder in arabicVarious unorthodox verbs in Arabicعسى in arabicليس in arabic
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The substitute in Arabic | الْبَدَلُ | Arabic free course

Thursday, 25 February 2021 by al-dirassa
الْبَدَلُ is the noun used to substitute the fore-mentioned noun in the succeeding sentence. The substitute must follow the word for which it is substituted. The substitute is called الْبَدَلُ, and the substituted is called الْمُبْدَلُ مِنْهُ. Example: فَآمِنُوا بِاللَّـهِ وَرَسُولِهِ النَّبِيِّ الْأُمِّيِّ  So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet (7:158)  
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The number and its usage in Arabic | الْعَدَدُ

Wednesday, 24 February 2021 by al-dirassa
the numbers in Arabic
In Arabic,  العَدَدُ are the numbers and الْمَعْدُودُ is the counted noun.     The cardinal numbers – العَدَدُ الأَسَاسِي   The Arabic numerals are the trickiest features of written Arabic. They are not governed by a single rule, but in general terms, they are treated as declinable nouns as their ending harakah are changed
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Noun for pre-eminence in Arabic | اِسْمُ التَّفْضِيلِ

Monday, 22 February 2021 by al-dirassa
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It is a noun that is used to compare another noun. The comparison can be between two persons, things, groups or with one person to a group of people, etc. the noun of pre-eminence – اِسْمُ التَّفْضِيلِ is of two types: comparative – اِسْمُ المُقَارِنِ superlative – اِسْمُ التَّفْضِيلِ   1. The comparative – اِسْمُ
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the Adjectives in the Arabic language | الصِّفَاتُ

Sunday, 21 February 2021 by al-dirassa
Introduction   Adjectives are words that describe the quality, colour or defect of the other noun. They are usually derived from intransitive verbs, which note a state or condition rather than an act.   There are certain patterns to denote an adjective.   1. فَاعِلٌ – active participle   Examples: صَالِحٌ – righteous/good عَالِمٌ –
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The accusative in Arabic | حَالةُ النَّصَبِ

Saturday, 20 February 2021 by al-dirassa
The accusative case | Arabic free course
Introduction to the accusative case   In the Arabic free course, we are going to see that the accusative case – حَالةُ النَّصَبِ in Arabic treats three points: the objects the noun for state the specification   The objects – الْمَفَاعِلُ The objects of the verb are in the accusative case- حَالةُ النَّصَبِ. There are
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Interjection in Arabic | صِيْغَةُ التَّعَجُّبِ

Saturday, 20 February 2021 by al-dirassa
Interjection in Arabic | Arabic free course
1. The interjection: the vocative Particles of interjection that are used to call or address someone are vocative particles. they are called – أَدَوَاتُ النَّدَاء and are as follows: يَا – O! (masculine and feminine) يَا أَيُّهَا –  O! (masculine) يَا أَيَّتُهَا –  O! (feminine) When يَا is followed by a noun in the singular, it
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Particles of conjunction | أَدَوَاتُ التَّصْرِيف

Thursday, 18 February 2021 by al-dirassa
Introduction of the particles of conjunction   Particles which link words in sentences are called conjunctions.     Types of particles of conjunction   They are: وَ – and: appelé وَاو عَطَف: links one sentence to another or a noun to another noun. وَ – while appleé وَاو الحَال: comes between two sentences the second
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Kaana and its sisters | كَانَ وَ أَخَوَاتُهَا

Wednesday, 17 February 2021 by al-dirassa
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Introduction   The following particles are called Kaana and its sisters  – كَانَ وَ أَخَوَاتُهَا: كَانَ – to was صَارَ – to become أَصْبَحَ –  to become, to enter/do in the morning مَا زَالَ – increasingly, continuously أَضْحَى – to enter the dawn لَيْسَ – not بَاتَ – to become, to pass the night أَمْسَ
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