One again, it’s time for an In-Depth Blog.

This time, I learned vocabulary. During this, I tried to steer clear of words that have significant amounts of grammar, as it gets complex really easily. Words like have, to, etc. I also made three audio files for the three sections you’ll see. It’s in order so you can just follow along.

Anyways, let’s jump in.

Let’s start with numbers, then we’ll move to common adjectives and nouns.

0 – سفر

1 – واحد

2 – اثْنان

3 – ثلاثة

4 – أرْبعة

5 – خمْسة

6 – ستّة

7 – سبْعة

8 – ثمانية

9 – تسْعة

10 – عشرة

11 – أهد عشر

12 – اثْنا عشر

20 – اشْرون

21 – واحد واشْرون

30 – ثلاثون

40 – ارْبعون

50 – خمْسون

After learning the number system, I found it quite straight-forward as in the 10s it is (#, 10) and beyond is (# and multiple of 10). Multiples of ten are the root word but changed to –un.

Now for some common adjectives.

Good – جيد

Great – عظيم

Bad – سئ

New – جديد

Old – قديم

First – أول

Last – آخر

Big – كبير

Small – سعير

Interestingly enough, a lot of them follow a consonant-short a-consonant-long I-consonant pattern

And now some common nouns.

Man – رجل

Woman – امرأة

Boy – ولد

Girl – بنت

Note the ة on feminine words or words describing feminine words, similar to French. The sound varies by context but it marks a feminine word. (Oddly enough, “bint”, or girl, doesn’t have a ta marbutah.)

Anyways, that has been this week’s blog post.

Cheers,

Tyler