For this post, Unfortunately I happened to get behind in my learning project blog post. Life got the better of me and also sprinkle of procrastination.  Nevertheless, I decided to catch up this week and made an effort take on more than one lesson. This post will showcase the first lesson I have learnt this week.

Referring back to me educational journey of learning Arabic, the previous lesson focused on increasing my Arabic vocabulary. Since I had made some effort in learning verb conjugations and translating some sentences using Duo-lingo. I thought to cover a more difficult topic which is Arabic grammar known as “Nahw”.

The resource I will be using for grammar is called Tasheel-an-Nahw (Grammar made easy). I decided to cover the chapter 1.1 and 1.2 with the exercises as shown below (If blury please refer to the link ch. 1.1 and 1.2) :

The first part of the lesson discovers the reason of why grammar is studied. it is to learn how to correctly form a sentence.  then I had learned the difference between a word (kalam) and a sentence (kalimah). In addition I had learned the concept of “Iraab” which tells us the grammatical state of the word (Usually demonstrated by the vowel of the word).

It also speaks about the goals of why grammar should be learned which is ultimately to understand the Quran from the Islamic perspective.

now moving onto chapter 1.2.

This chapter begins to discuss the definitions of the three types of kalam. This resource although abut advanced helps in understanding this lesson.

1. Ism – Noun: modern definition is a person,place, or thing. Classical definition mentions that it is a word which requires another word for it to make sense in a complete sentence. Example: rajulun = A man. This example is not a complete sentence and requires more words to form a sentence
2. Fi’l – Verb: modern definition is that it means to do some action. Classical definition is that it does not need another word for it to be a sentence. Example: jalasa = He sat. This example is sufficient as a complete sentence.
3. Harf – Particle : It is a word which requires an ism and/or a fi’l for it to be understood. Example: man = who. This example requires another word such as “who does” for it to be understood in a sentence.

I than decided to work on the exercise to ensure my understanding of the lesson. Answers are below.

Q1:

i. verb ii. particle iii. noun iv. verb

The other exercise refers to a different lesson hence I did not complete it.