Diving into Lesson four of Arabic

Let's look at the verb we are working on

ضَرَبَ


By now you know how to transliterate this verb and the pattern it is formed on. You also know that when a word is formed on this pattern it is a verb and has the pronoun He in it. 



What you need to remember now is that words formed on this pattern - three letters with fatha on top of each one, are verbs in the past tense. 



Thus, when you see a word in Arabic which has three letters each of which has fatha on top of it you will know that:

• Is a verb
• Is in the past tense
• Has the pronoun He in it

In the next lesson we will look at more examples in Shaa Allah. 

Arabic Lesson three already

The verb we are working on

ضَرَبَ

In this lesson we will learn to transliterate this word into English.


The fatha will be represented by  "a."


The Daad will be represented by a d
The Raa will be represented by a r
The Baa will be represented by a b.  

When you transliterate you always write the letter first followed by the vowel sign on top of it.  

So, we first have Daad which is followed by a fatha so we write

da  (the d represents the Daad and the a represents the fatha)

Then we have a Raa followed by a fatha so we add to da

ra  (the r represents the Raad and the a represents the fatha)

and we have

dara

Finally, we have a Baa with a fatha on top of it so we add

ba   (the b represents the Baa and the a represents the fatha)

to dara  and get

daraba

He struck

 

Moving to Arabic Lesson Two

In the previous lesson you learned about the following word


ضَرَبَ


This word means He struck.


The word is a verb.


Notice the pattern upon which this word is built. It consists of 

• Three letters
• Each letter has the vowel sign fatha on top of it

Whenever you see a word in Arabic which is composed of three letters and each of the three letters has fatha on top of it, you can assume that it is a verb. 


The pronoun He is inherently present in a word formed on this pattern.

 

Your first Arabic Lesson

Look closely at the following word

ضَرَبَ


It consists of three letters coded in red, green, and yellow.



The letter in red is called Daad

The letter in green is called Raa

The letter in yellow is called Baa



Each letter has a sign over it. This sign, always written on top of a letter, is called fatha.


It is one of the three vowel signs in Arabic.