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After the construct state of nouns, where they have the meaning of possessive determiners, e.g. "my, your, his" After prepositions, where they have the meaning of objects of the prepositions, e.g. "to me, to you, to him" As accusative forms they appear: Attached to verbs, where they have the meaning of direct object pronouns, e.g. "me, you, him"
The only real concatenative derivational process is the nisba adjective -iyy-, which can be added to any noun (or even other adjective) to form an adjective meaning "related to X", and nominalized with the meaning "person related to X" (the same ending occurs in Arabic nationality adjectives borrowed into English such as "Iraqi", "Kuwaiti").
The phrase al-Baḥrayn (or el-Baḥrēn, il-Baḥrēn), the Arabic for Bahrain, showing the prefixed article.. Al-(Arabic: ٱلْـ, also romanized as el-, il-, and l-as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic), is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (ḥarf) whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite.
A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book. A reference work describing the grammar of a language is called a reference grammar or simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive ...
Iḍāfah (إضافة) is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession. Iḍāfah basically entails putting one noun after another: the second noun specifies more precisely the nature of the first noun. In forms of Arabic which mark grammatical case, this second noun must be in the genitive case. The construction is ...
Levantine Arabic grammar is the set of rules by which Levantine Arabic creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other vernacular Arabic varieties .
ʾIʿrāb (إِعْرَاب, IPA:) is an Arabic term for the declension system of nominal, adjectival, or verbal suffixes of Classical Arabic to mark grammatical case.These suffixes are written in fully vocalized Arabic texts, notably the Qur’ān or texts written for children or Arabic learners, and they are articulated when a text is formally read aloud, but they do not survive in any ...
Negation in Arabic (Arabic: ٱلنَّفْي, romanized: al-nafy 'the negative') is the array of approaches used in Arabic grammar to express grammatical negation. These strategies correspond to words in English like no and not .