Jonne

as an addition to nani's lesson

You though you would get away so easy, huh >) ? One form isn't enough for one letteق. You need four. Sometimes only two. The letter looks different in the beginning of a word, in the middle of a word, in the end of a word and alone. Compare the forms with "jeem"
جــــجـــــج ج
You can easily distinguish the different forms..
جــ ــجــ ـــج ج

then the actual forms

"ALIF"
you can connect alif only when it's the last letter of a word. Otherwise it 'stands alone'!

first : ا
middle : ا
last : ـــا
alone : ا

ا ــا ــا ا


"BAA, TAA, THAA"
these all look almost the same.. except for the dots.

for ba:
first : بـــ
middle : ـــبـــ
last :ـــب
alone : ب

for ta just take the dot off and add two above as in ت
for tha same but add three as in ث

alone - last - middle - first

بــبــب ب baa
تــتــت ت taa
ثــتــت ت thaa


"JEEM, HAA, KHAA"

alone - last - middle - first
جــجــج ج jeem
حــحــح ح haa/7aa
خــخــخ خ khaa


"DAAL, DHAAL"

alone - last - middle - first
د ـد ـد د daal
ذ ـذ ـذ ذ dhaal


"RAA', ZAY"

alone - last - middle - first
ر ـر ـر ر raa
ز ـز ـز ز zay


"SEEN, SHEEN, SAAD, DAAD"

alone - last - middle - first
ســ ــســ ــس س seen
شــ ــشــ ــش ش sheen
صــ ــصــ ــص ص saad
ضــ ــضــ ــض ض daad


"TAA, THAA, AYN, GHAYN"

alone - last - middle - first

طــ ــطــ ــط ط taa/6aa
ظــ ــظــ ــظ ظ thaa/dhaa
عــ ــعــ ــع ع ayn/3ayn
غــ ــغــ ــغ غ ghayn


"FAA, QAAF, KAAF, LAAM, MEEM, NOON"

alone - last - middle - first
فــ ــفــ ــف ف faa
قــ ــقــ ــق ق qaaf
كــ ــكــ ــك ك kaaf
لــ ــلــ ــل ل laam
مــ ــمــ ــم م meem
نــ ــنــ ــن ن noon


"HAA, WAW, YAA"

alone - last - middle - first
هــ ــهــ ــه ه haa
و ــو ــو و waw
يــ ــيــ ــي ي yaa


VOWELMARKS

As you might now, you only mark LONG vowels when writing in Arabic. Short ones can be marked with vowel marks. See:

B بْ For a plain consonant, no vowel you put a little circle above it. It's SUKUN
BA بَ For short a you put a little line above it. It's called FAT7A
BAA بَا For long a you put a little line above it and alif after it.

BI بِ for short i/e you put a little line under it..it's KASRA
BII بِي For long ee you put a little line under it and yaa after it.

BU بُ for short u/o you put a little waw above it.. it's DAMMA
BUU بُو for long oo you put a little waw above it and waw after it.

for double consonant, as BB you put shadda above the letter.

بّ


Now, let's look at the word MAGHRIBIY..
ma = مـَــ
gh = ــغْــ
ri = ــرِ
biy = بيّ

and yalla we get مـَـغْـرِبِيّ

try writing

ISM
ANA
SALIM
SABAA7
JAYYID

have fun learning..

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DigitaL MasteR

great lesson Jonne, and well organized too
be3te2ed enno eldars el jdeed ra7 bekoon amthela 3ala rab6 el 7oroof, bas lessa bakeer shway 3ala el jomal, right?
I really enjoyed the lesson Jonne, specially the "Maghribi" word, our morrocun friends are gonna like it
BTW: Asma didn't show up today, hope everything is fine

yalla slam

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Jonne

erm you know, i'm not fluent in arabic *trying to understand*

humm yeah might be too early for sentences.. they should know hamza and tanween and all this stuff before

the next lesson about writing in cursive style? tell me what does this mean ana ma a7ki el lo'3a el 3arabiya..okey yalla ana a7ki el lo'3a da sayye2an...? how do you say bad in arabic eh ?

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Nana_Brazil

Very well done, Jonne!! I liked the vowels thing because it is something I do not know them well yet.. thanks !!

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Jonne

3afwan yaa nani w DM

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Nani

bad ya Jonne .. you don't know how to say bad ?? bad is sayye2 سيء
omg .. why do i feel sometimes that jonne is an arabic language teacher but in disguise LOL

well done jonne

Jonne

hahaha maybe I am >) i'm just playing a student MUAHAHAHAHAHA

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