Learn Quranic Arabic (Madinah Book 1)

Explore the nouns of pointing (al-asma ishara) and how Arabic marks gender and number in this and that forms, with examples for masculine and feminine referents.

Learn Quranic Arabic (Madinah Book 1) lesson 1 teaches this is constructions and basic question words ma and man. Build essential vocabulary: house, door, book, pen, chair, camel, doctor, student.

this lesson introduces vatika, the masculine form of that in Arabic, using examples with hada and danica and vocabulary such as masjid, house, horse, donkey, cat, dog, sugar, and milk.

Discover how el forms the definite article in Arabic and why tanween disappears, then distinguish hamza al-wasl and hamza qat' with pronunciation and writing marks on alif.

Learn how the Arabic definite article al attaches to nouns and hides hamza wasl; practice with simple sentences describing objects, like the book is new and the pen is old.

Explore i'raab, the ending changes caused by active elements entering a word, and the four arab states—rafah, nasib, ajal (also called a shuffle), and al jassim (sukoon)—that define word endings.

Explore Arabic prepositions (huruf jar) as particles that mark the following noun with kasrah, creating the jarun construction. Review common prepositions fi, be, min, li, illa, hatta.

Learn arabic prepositions and pronoun usage through examples like al-bayt with fi, maktab, masjid, and hammam, and practice asking where someone is using aina and min.

Explain i'raab by showing how Arabic word endings change under active elements, outline the four endings, and contrast words that can take them with al bayt and hadha.

Explore the idafa construction, showing two-part possession in Arabic through examples like kitab Muhammadin and the li form, and learn to identify the possessed and possessor.

Explore lesson five’s Arabic dialogue on questions, possession, and prepositions, with examples like is this the book of Muhammad and where is the notebook of Amar.

Explain how Arabic nouns carry gender, unlike English. Identify masculine and feminine forms, often marked by ta marbuta, with noted exceptions.

Learn about Arabic gender by focusing on feminine nouns and the feminine form of hada (hadi), with possession phrases like to whom this belongs and body-part gender rules.

Explore the Arabic dual form al-muthanna by adding an ending to nouns, with examples like kitab and betani, and study detached pronouns across three persons.

Explore nouns of pointing in detail, covering singular (mofrad) and dual (muthanna) forms with masculine and feminine variants, and note two-item examples like kitab and masjid and Qur'an appearances.

lesson seven introduces questions and gendered forms, teaching who is this/that, masculine and feminine variants, and vocabulary including doctor, nurse, origins, tall versus short, and car and watch.

Explore the tharf in Arabic, a time- or place-indicating ism ending with fatha; it governs the following noun, causing it to bear kasra, with examples like sabahan, tahta, maktabi.

Lesson 8 introduces Arabic demonstratives with al and possession, showing how to say this/that man or house and who the house belongs to using merchant, doctor, mosque, and school.

Explore the Arabic relative pronoun and its relative clause, equivalent to who and which in English, with gender and number forms and examples.

Learn how the Arabic adjective (na't) follows the noun it describes, agreeing in case ending, gender, number, and definiteness, unlike English, and how to distinguish it from the predicate.

This lesson introduces gendered nouns and adjective agreement in Arabic with examples like Abbas the rich merchant and Ahmad the hard working student, and covers possession phrases and location cues.