Arabic Grammar PDF | Basic Arabic Grammar

Dear Students You know that Arabic is also the All language of Quran and we should understand that Quran is an Arabic phenomenon. The words and sentence constructions Allah chose to deliver the message is immaculate and pristine.

I think, Learning Basic Arabic Grammar rules should be the first step forward to any Muslim whose native tongue is not Arabic language and I would further argue we all should learn Arabic grammar for understanding Quran (learn Arabic to understand Quran) to cherish its beauty. Dear Students in Arabic language There are Two main categories of Alphabet Letters: Shamsiyyah letters and Qamariyyah letters

There are Fourteen (14) Shamsiyyah letters.  They are:ت ث دذرزس ش ص ض ط ظ ل ن

There are Fourteen Qamariyyah letters: اب ج ح خ ع غ ف ق ك م ه و ي

In this post, I would like to summarize basics of Arabic grammar for beginners. We will discuss here parts of speech  in Arabic grammar, verbs in Arabic grammar, Nouns in Arabic grammar in simple English. These basic Arabic grammar rules will serve as the foundation for a beginner or Preschool kids.

So, without further ado, let’s begin and make the basics of Arabic grammar super easy 😉 (إن شاء الله)

How to begin learning Arabic Grammar?

Dear Students Learning any language begins with learning its alphabets,Arabic Alphabet Flashcards, Basic Grammar Rules, words and then we make sentence. Similarly, Learning Arabic language can be broadly classified into 3 broad categories:

• Ilm ul Aswat (علم الأصوات)
• Sarf (الصرف)
• Nahw (النحو)
• Ilm ul Aswat (علم الأصوات)

This is the first level of studying Arabic language in which we study letters e.g. ي،د،ح etc. We learn, How to pronounce letters ?

1. Understand point of articulation of letters i.e. Makhraj(مخرج)
2. Understand characteristics of letters i.e. Sifat(صفات) A part of this ilm comes under study of Tajweed.

Sarf (الصرف)

This is the second level where we study the whole word (كَلِمَة) e.g. زيد, يدخل, ثُمّ. We study the rules related to a word e.g.

• فعل مجرد
• فعل مزيد  And so on …

Nahw (النحو)

This is the third level in which we study the entire sentence i.e. Jumla (الجُمل) OR Kalam (الكلام). One fine point is in النحو, We study كَلِمَة in الجُملة, Not كَلِمَة by itself.

Before moving forward to parts of speech. I would love to quickly discuss,

Definition of Kalam (الكلام)

Meaning useful expressions, useful arabic phrases And by Useful we meant when we finish our talking (i.e. الكلام) the listener is not waiting for anything else.
Example: جاء زيد إلى البيت(Zaid came to the House) is a full statement (اللفظ المفيد)… إن جاء زيد إلى البيت (If Zaid came home …) is Not full statement (اللفظ غيرُ المفيد) because the listener is waiting for the rest of the sentence.

Part of Speech in Arabic Grammar

أقسام الكلام

There are 3 parts of Speech in Arabic Grammar. Every word that we read/speak will fall into following 3 categories,

• Noun (Ism) (اسم)
• Verb (Fa’il) (فعل)
• Harf (حرف)
• Ism (اسم)

Ism in Arabic Grammar can be compared to nouns in English language (Caveat: I want to keep it simple) e.g. زيد, فاطمة, كتاب etc. To identify اسم from an Arabic sentence there are few signs, which we will discuss now.

Fa’il (فعل Verb)

Fa’il in Arabic grammar can be compared to verbs in English language e.g. كتب, يذهب ,اخرج

Harf (حرف)

Harf in Arabic grammar can be compared to prepositions in English language e.g. … من إلى عن على.