Madinah Arabic course | Book 1 – LESSON 1 (part 1) — Transcript

Introduction to Madinah Arabic Course Book 1 focusing on Arabic parts of speech, especially nouns, their gender and number.

Key Takeaways

  • Arabic words are categorized into nouns, verbs, and particles.
  • Book 1 emphasizes learning nouns, their gender, and number.
  • Every Arabic noun has a gender: masculine or feminine.
  • Nouns can be singular, dual, or plural, with specific forms for each.
  • Effective learning requires focused listening before note-taking.

Summary

  • The video introduces the Madinah Arabic Course Book 1, designed for English-speaking students.
  • The course aims to make Arabic learning accessible from home, addressing common barriers like lack of teachers or high costs.
  • Arabic words (Kalimat) fall into three categories: Ism (noun), Fi'l (verb), and Harf (particle).
  • Book 1 focuses primarily on Ism (nouns), which make up about 60-70% of the Arabic language.
  • Nouns in Arabic have gender, either masculine (Mudhakkar) or feminine (Mu'annath).
  • Examples of masculine and feminine nouns are given, such as Kursiyyun (chair, masculine) and Sayyarah (car, feminine).
  • Nouns also have number: singular (Mufrad), dual (Muthanna), and plural (Jam').
  • Examples illustrate singular, dual, and plural forms of nouns like Kursiyyun, Kursiyyani, and Karasiyyu.
  • The instructor advises focusing on understanding explanations before taking notes for better comprehension.
  • The course will progress through three books, starting with Book 1, then Book 2, and eventually Ajrumiyyah.

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ادع الى سبيل ربك بالحكمه والموعظه الحسنه وجادلهم بالتي هي احسن
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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillahi hamdan kathiran tayyiban mubarakan fihi kama yuhibbu rabbuna wa yardah. Marhaban bikum ayyuhal mustami'un. I welcome you all to our first class in this Arabic program.
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And the goal of this program, inshallah, is to enable people to study the Arabic language from the comforts of their own homes or wherever else they may be.
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We find that there are many people who want to learn the Arabic language, but for one reason or another, it's not easy for them to do so.
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Perhaps there's no teacher.
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Or perhaps the teachers who are available are charging extortionate amounts of money.
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Or perhaps it's difficult for them for one reason or another.
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So, we've put together this class, inshallah, to make it easy for people to study in the comforts of their own home, inshallah.
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And progress and gain gain understanding of the Arabic language.
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So we ask Allah subhanho wa Ta'ala to accept this humble effort and make it a beneficial service for Islam and the Muslims.
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This program, our Arabic program, is going to be based on the Arabic course of Madinah Islamic University for English-speaking students.
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The course consists of three books.
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It consists of three books.
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Which was originally designed and taught at Madinah Islamic University.
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The book that we're going to begin with here, this book here, is Madinah Book 1.
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Madinah Book 1.
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And this book here consists of 23 lessons.
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There are 23 lessons in this book.
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And this is what we're going to start with, Madinah Book 1, inshallah.
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And then we're going to move on to Book 2.
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And once we complete Book 2, inshallah, if we're still together on this journey.
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We are going to start Ajrumiyyah, inshallah.
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Tayyib.
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So before we begin today's class, we are going to take a quick introduction.
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Looking at the parts of speech in the Arabic language.
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The parts of speech in the Arabic language.
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The Arabic language, just like any other language, is made up of words, words.
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A word in the Arabic language, we refer to it as Kalimah.
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Kalimatun.
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Kalimatun.
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A Kalimah is a word.
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A word in the Arabic language, whether it is read or spoken or written.
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Any type of word in the Arabic language will either be one of these three things.
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An Arabic word will either fall into one of these three categories.
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It's either going to be an Ism.
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Ismun.
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Ismun.
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Which is a noun.
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An Ism is a noun.
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Nouns are names of things, names of people, places.
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Names of ideas, concepts.
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Names of things are known as Ismun.
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A noun, Ismun.
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So this is the first category.
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Second category is Fi'lun.
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A verb.
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An action or so or of some sort.
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Fi'l.
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Fi'lun.
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Fi'lun.
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A verb.
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If the word is not Ism and it's not a Fi'l, then it's going to be a Harf.
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Harfun.
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Harfun.
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Harfun, particle.
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So we have Ismun, which is a noun.
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Names of people, names of places, names of things.
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Names of concepts, ideas.
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Fi'lun, verbs.
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Harfun, anything which is not an Ism or a Fi'l, then it's going to be called a Harf, a particle.
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So parts of the Arabic language, we have three parts.
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Parts of the Arabic language, there are three parts.
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It's either going to be an Ism, a Fi'lun, or Harfun.
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So when we go through this book, inshallah, you are going to find out that we do not come out of these three categories.
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Every word that we take is going to fall into one of these three categories.
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In Book 1, the author, he's going to concentrate on this category, Ismun.
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He's going to concentrate on Ismun.
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And nouns in the Arabic language, they make up the majority of the language.
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Probably around 60% of the language or 70% is built up of nouns, Asma'.
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So it's only fitting that the author, he concentrates more on this than anything else.
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And this is what we're going to concentrate on in Book 1.
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Nouns.
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And when we look at nouns, we're going to look at nouns from various perspectives.
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Nouns in the Arabic language, they all have a gender.
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Nouns.
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Have a gender.
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And the gender is either going to be masculine or feminine.
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Ismun.
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Ismun.
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In terms of gender, we have two types.
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It's either going to be masculine.
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We say masculine in Arabic.
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Mudhakkarun.
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Mudhakkarun.
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Which is masculine.
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Or it's either going to be feminine.
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Feminine is Mu'annathun.
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Mu'annathun.
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Feminine.
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Tayyib, so every noun in the Arabic language has a gender.
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And this gender is either going to be masculine or feminine.
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In Arabic we say Mudhakkar or Mu'annath.
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Every noun has a gender, whether it's a living being or a thing or an object or a concept.
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It's going to have a gender.
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So for example.
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Kursiyyun, for example.
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Kursiyyun means chair.
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This noun has a gender, and the gender is masculine.
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Another example.
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Sayyarah.
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Sayyarah is a car.
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Sayyarah means a car.
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The gender of a car in the Arabic language is feminine.
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Sabrun.
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Sabrun means patience.
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Patience is an idea, it's an it's a concept.
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This concept has a gender, and it's Mudhakkar.
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So when we refer to Sabr, we refer to it as a masculine.
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The point is, every noun, every Ism in the Arabic language has a gender.
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It's either going to be Mudhakkar, masculine.
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Or Mu'annath, feminine.
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This is point number 1.
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The second point related to nouns that we need to bear in mind.
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Is every noun consists of a number.
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Every noun has a number.
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And this number is either going to be Mufradun.
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Mufradun.
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The noun indicates to something which is singular.
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Mufradun.
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Jam'un.
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Jam'un.
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Plural.
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The opposite of singular is plural.
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So this is what we have in the English language.
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We have things which are singular, pen.
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Things which are plural, pens.
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Pen, pens.
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However, in the Arabic language, we have something which is between Mufrad and Jam'.
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Something which comes between Mufrad and Jam', and that is Muthanna.
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Muthanna.
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What is Muthanna?
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Muthanna is dual.
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Two things.
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The number two, indicates to two objects or two people or two things.
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So we have Mufrad.
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We have Muthanna.
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And we have Jam'un.
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What we're saying here, we're saying every noun.
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In terms of number, every noun.
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So the first categorization was in terms of gender.
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Every noun has a gender.
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The gender is either masculine, Mudhakkar.
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Or feminine, Mu'annath, sorry.
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Don't confuse this like me.
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Between this and this.
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There's a very similar.
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So don't confuse between the two.
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Muthanna, Mu'annath, Mu'annath, feminine.
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In terms of number, every noun has consists of a number, carries a number within it.
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It's either going to be singular, Muthanna.
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Or Jam'.
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Or Jam'un.
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Mufradun, singular.
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Muthanna, dual.
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Or Jam'un, plural.
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Mufradun, singular.
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Muthanna, dual.
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Jam', plural.
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So, if I was to say Kursiyyun, the example that I used previously.
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Kursiyyun is Mudhakkar, it's a masculine noun, Mudhakkar.
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The gender within Kursiy is masculine.
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The number within Kursiy, I'm referring to one chair.
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So it's singular, Mufrad.
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So Kursiyyun is Mufrad and it's Mudhakkar.
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Tamam.
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If I say Sayyarah, car.
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Car is feminine.
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And it's singular.
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I'm talking about one car.
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In the Arabic language, if we're referring to two things.
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There's a construction that we form, and it becomes two.
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So Kursiyyun, if I say Kursiyyani.
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Kursiyyani.
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It means two chairs.
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If I say Sayyaratani.
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Two cars.
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Anything which is more than two goes to the category of Jam', plural.
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Karasiyyu.
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Is the plural of Kursiyyun.
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More than two chairs, plural.
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Chairs.
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And Sayyaratun.
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Cars is plural.
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So the point here is that every noun consists of a number.
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And this number is either going to be Mufrad, singular.
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Dual or plural.
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Tamam, so this is something that we need to bear in mind.
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And when we explain these things, I hope that everyone concentrates on what's been explained.
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As opposed to busy themselves with taking notes.
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Firstly, concentrate and understand what's been explained.
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Before you write away.
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Otherwise, if you're writing while I'm explaining, you're not going to understand anything.
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Or it's going to be difficult for you to understand.
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So when things are being explained, try and focus, and then inshallah, you can pause the video and take notes.
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You can take notes after you've understood.
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So so far, we've taken words in the Arabic language are divided into three.
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The parts of speech in the Arabic language are three.
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Any word that you see will fall into one of these three categories.
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It's either going to be a noun, Ismun.
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Ismun is the name of a place, name of a thing, name of a person.
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Name of anything, pronouns, adjectives.
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They all come under this category.
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Then we have Fi'lun.
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Fi'lun is a verb.
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Doing words.
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Then anything which is not an Ism or a Fi'l is going to be a Harf.
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And we said everything that we study in the Arabic language, including this book, is going to fall into one of these three categories.
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Then we said in Book 1, the author is going to concentrate on Ism.
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More so than the Fi'l and the Harf.
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He's going to concentrate on Ism.
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Mainly because the Arabic language consists more of nouns than anything else.
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60 or 70% of the Arabic language is built up of Asma', nouns.
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Because of that, we said we're going to focus on Ism.
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And then we categorized Ism into two categories.
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The first category is in terms of gender.
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We said every Ism, every noun has a gender.
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Carries within it a gender.
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It's either going to be Mudhakkar or Mu'annath.
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Mudhakkar is masculine.
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Mu'annath is feminine.
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And inshallah, just understand this categorization.
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The example is not really important right now.
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You will understand this more as we go through the book, inshallah.
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The second categorization of the Ism is in terms of number.
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Every Ism consists of a number.
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Carries within it a number.
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It's either going to point to one thing.
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Which is Mufrad.
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The noun is either going to point to two things.
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Which is Muthanna.
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Or more than two things, which is Jam'.
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Jam', plural.
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Tamam, so if this is understood.
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Then we've understood today's lesson.
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Okay, let's go back to today's lesson now.
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The author in the first page, he mentions Hadha.
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Hadha.
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If we go back to the writing of Hadha.
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There's a spelling rule here.
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With Ha, when we when we say Ha, we are stretching it the same way we stretch the Dhal.
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We say Ha Dha.
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Two counts, this is two counts, this is two counts.
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This being two counts is something understandable because we have Fathah and Alif.
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Alif causes this to turn from one count, Dha, becomes Dha, two counts.
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Because of the Alif.
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Whereas this Ha is two counts, even though there's nothing here.
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There's no Alif here.
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However, there's a special rule with regards to Hadha, and that special rule is that we pronounce an Alif.
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Even though it's not written.
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There's an Alif here which is read, but it's not pronounced.
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It's read, but it's not pronounced.
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So if we were to read this, this actually says Hadha.
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Hadha.
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But because of that rule, we say Hadha.
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What's the rule?
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The rule is there is an Alif after the Ha, which is pronounced but not written.
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So we don't write it like this.
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But we pronounce it like this.
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This says Hadha.
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This Alif is not written.
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So we join the Ha to the Dhal.
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Hadha.
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Something very important to bear in mind.
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In the Quran, they have a small Alif which is written like this.
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Just to make it easier for people so that they're not confused.
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Yeah, because if they don't have this sign, people might just say Hadha.
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Which is wrong.
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So they add a little Alif to indicate that Alif which is not written.
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So people can stretch this Ha.
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They'll say Hadha.
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And that's what the author does here.
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He's added that small Alif.
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Okay, so when you spell Hadha, when you write it out.
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Make sure you write it without the Alif.
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And there's only one Alif after the Dhal.
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And when you pronounce it, make sure you read it with the Alif.
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You pronounce the Ha, two counts.
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And the Dha, two counts.
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Hadha.
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What does Hadha mean?
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It means this.
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Okay.
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So there are six or nine words on this first page.
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And you'll notice that all of these nine words that we're going to learn, they are nouns.
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They are nouns.
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Hadha is a noun also.
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We mentioned it's a demonstrative pronoun, Ism al-Isharah.
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The words after it.
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The things that we're pointing out are also all nouns.
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Nine in total.
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And these nine nouns are all going to be masculine.
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Masculine, Mudhakkarun.
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Mudhakkarun, Mudhakkarun.
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None of them are feminine.
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All of these have a gender.
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The gender is they are masculine.
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And they're all singular.
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And inshallah, they're all close to the speaker.
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Who's pointing them out.
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Hadha Baytun.
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Together, this means this is a house.
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This is a house.
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Baytun.
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Baytun means a house.
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Masjidun.
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Masjidun, a masjid.
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A mosque.
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Babun.
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Babun.
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A door.
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Babun, a door.
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Kitabun.
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Kitabun, a book.
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Kitabun.
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Qalamun.
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Qalamun, a pen.
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Miftahun.
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Miftahun, a key.
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Maktabun.
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Maktabun, a desk.
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Sarirun.
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Sarirun, a bed.
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Kursiyyun.
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Kursiyyun is a chair.
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So all of these things that we're pointing out have a gender and they are Mudhakkar, they're all masculine.
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And they're all singular.
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And inshallah, they're all close to the speaker.
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Who's pointing them out.
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Hadha Baytun, together, this means this is a house.
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This is a house.
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The there's no equivalent translation or equivalent to is in the Arabic language.
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Is is something that we add when we're translating into English.
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Is and are, as he mentions in the notes at the back, they are called copula.
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They are words which are added when you translate these kind of words into English.
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Which attaches the Mubtada and the Khabar together to give a complete sentence.
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Is and are.
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We don't have a equivalent in the Arabic language.
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So when we translate Hadha by itself, this.
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This.
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Baytun, a house.
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This, a house.
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We don't say this, this, a house.
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We need to add that is when we translate into English.
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To make the sentence complete.
19:38
Speaker A
This is a house.
19:41
Speaker A
This is a house.
19:44
Speaker A
Is is something that is is is not part of any of this.
19:48
Speaker A
It's just added to complete the meaning.
19:51
Speaker A
Hadha Baytun.
19:53
Speaker A
This is a house.
19:56
Speaker A
Hadha Masjidun.
19:58
Speaker A
This is a Masjid or mosque.
20:01
Speaker A
Hadha Babun.
20:03
Speaker A
This is a door.
20:05
Speaker A
Hadha Kitabun.
20:07
Speaker A
This is a book.
20:09
Speaker A
Hadha Qalamun.
20:11
Speaker A
This is a pen.
20:13
Speaker A
Hadha Miftahun.
20:15
Speaker A
This is a key.
20:17
Speaker A
Hadha Maktabun.
20:19
Speaker A
This is a desk.
20:21
Speaker A
Hadha Sarirun.
20:23
Speaker A
This is a bed.
20:25
Speaker A
Hadha Kursiyyun.
20:27
Speaker A
This is a chair.
20:29
Speaker A
So what we're going to do now is we're going to read each one five times.
20:34
Speaker A
My assistants are going to repeat after me, I'm going to say each one five times.
20:40
Speaker A
And inshallah, when we're saying these, we need to say as though we are speaking that language.
20:45
Speaker A
We're not going to read them like robots.
20:49
Speaker A
Hadha Baytun.
21:14
Speaker A
Okay, what does Hadha Baytun mean?
21:16
Speaker B
This is a house.
21:18
Speaker A
This is a house.
21:20
Speaker A
Remember, yeah, don't forget.
21:21
Speaker A
What does Hadha Baytun mean?
21:23
Speaker B
This is a house.
21:25
Speaker A
Okay, next one.
21:27
Speaker A
Hadha Masjidun.
21:51
Speaker A
Okay, what does Hadha Masjidun mean?
21:53
Speaker B
This is a Masjid.
21:55
Speaker A
What do you do in a Masjid?
21:56
Speaker B
Pray.
21:58
Speaker A
Next one.
22:00
Speaker A
Hadha Babun.
22:24
Speaker A
What does Hadha Babun mean?
22:26
Speaker B
This is a door.
22:28
Speaker A
Where is Bab?
22:30
Speaker B
Door.
22:31
Speaker A
Door.
22:33
Speaker A
Next one.
22:35
Speaker A
Hadha Kitabun.
22:59
Speaker A
What does Hadha Kitabun mean?
23:01
Speaker B
This is a book.
23:03
Speaker A
This is a book.
23:05
Speaker A
Usually, books that you read, we say Kitabun.
23:08
Speaker A
And books that you write notes on, we say Daftarun.
23:12
Speaker A
Daftarun, notebook.
23:14
Speaker A
So this is a Daftar.
23:15
Speaker A
This is a notebook.
23:17
Speaker A
And this is a Kitab.
23:19
Speaker A
Okay.
23:21
Speaker A
Hadha Kitabun.
23:24
Speaker A
What does that mean?
23:26
Speaker B
This is a book.
23:28
Speaker A
This is a book.
23:30
Speaker A
Next one.
23:32
Speaker A
Hadha Qalamun.
23:52
Speaker A
What's Qalam?
23:54
Speaker B
This is a pen.
23:55
Speaker A
Pen.
23:57
Speaker A
Qalam is a pen.
23:59
Speaker A
So Hadha Qalamun means this is a pen.
24:02
Speaker A
Very good.
24:04
Speaker A
Remember these words, yeah?
24:06
Speaker A
I'm going to test you at the end, inshallah.
24:09
Speaker A
Hadha Miftahun.
24:29
Speaker A
What does Hadha Miftahun mean?
24:31
Speaker B
This is a key.
24:33
Speaker A
Key.
24:35
Speaker A
Miftah is a key.
24:37
Speaker A
Next one.
24:40
Speaker A
Hadha Maktabun.
25:00
Speaker A
What's Maktab?
25:02
Speaker B
Desk.
25:03
Speaker A
Desk.
25:05
Speaker A
Okay, this is a desk.
25:08
Speaker A
What's Maktab?
25:10
Speaker B
Desk.
25:12
Speaker A
Desk or office, place where you do your work, yeah?
25:16
Speaker A
Hadha Maktabun.
25:19
Speaker A
Hadha Sarirun.
25:39
Speaker A
What's Sarir?
25:41
Speaker B
This is a bed.
25:42
Speaker A
Bed.
25:44
Speaker A
Very good.
25:46
Speaker A
This is a bed.
25:48
Speaker A
What's a Sarir?
25:50
Speaker B
Bed.
25:52
Speaker A
Bed.
25:54
Speaker A
Okay, last one now, yeah?
25:56
Speaker A
We're on the last one.
25:58
Speaker A
And remember all the ones that we took, yeah?
26:01
Speaker A
Hadha Kursiyyun.
26:25
Speaker A
What does Hadha Kursiyyun mean?
26:27
Speaker B
This is a chair.
26:29
Speaker A
Chair.
26:31
Speaker A
Chair.
26:33
Speaker A
Okay, this question's for you, yeah?
26:36
Speaker A
How do you say this is a pen?
26:41
Speaker B
Hadha Masjidun.
26:43
Speaker A
Wrong.
26:45
Speaker A
How do you say this is a book?
26:47
Speaker B
Hadha Kitabun.
26:49
Speaker A
Very good.
26:51
Speaker A
How do you say this is a book?
26:53
Speaker B
Hadha Kitabun.
26:55
Speaker A
Okay, how do you say this is a door?
26:58
Speaker B
Hadha Miftahun.
27:00
Speaker A
Wrong.
27:02
Speaker A
So that means you need to revise.
27:05
Speaker A
You have to revise until next lesson.
27:09
Speaker A
See, you're getting it wrong.
27:11
Speaker A
Thank you.
27:13
Speaker A
So now you need to revise, yeah?
27:16
Speaker A
Okay, go and revise, please.
27:18
Speaker A
Everybody revise.
27:20
Speaker A
This is the end of our lesson.
27:23
Speaker A
Everyone needs to revise.
Topics:Madinah Arabic CourseArabic language learningArabic nounsArabic grammarArabic parts of speechMudhakkarMu'annathMufradMuthannaJam'

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