Arabic Grammar, One Page at a Time

A 196-page illustrated course in Arabic grammar that starts at the marks on the letters and ends with you parsing Qur'an verses word by word.

Part One — how sentences hold together: the three kinds of word, the four states, both kinds of sentence, joined pairs, followers, the fifteen words that take the a-ending, and the three ways into the i-ending. Part Two — how words are built from three-letter roots, the six doors of the bare verb, all fourteen persons, and the nine added shapes. Part Three — the verbs that shift when waw, ya or alif sits inside the root. Part Four — ten worksheets on real verses, with numbered words and empty boxes to fill in.

One idea to a page. Full harakat on every Arabic word. 133 exercises with answers at the back, and 15 checkpoint tests along the way.

Sources: al-Ajurrumiyya for grammar, as-Sarf lil-mubtadi'in for word-building, Mu'jam I'rab Alfaz al-Qur'an al-Karim for the verse analysis, and Hilali & Khan for the English meanings. None of the Arabic is invented.

Delivered as a PDF in A4 — read it on a phone or print it.