LESSON 2

UNIT 1 (0.2)
THREE KINDS OF WORDS IN ARABIC

The three kinds of words in Arabic: Ism, Fil and Harf









   

What do you remember from last time? What do you have to remember that you
have to say, when you start learning a lesson?

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We have made the Quran easy to remember.

So we pray Allah makes it easy for us to remember. Ok, lets start today.

Were going to try to keep the lessons 10 minutes or less, so that we get a lot out
of them, and we learn a lot, and we dont forget. And your job is going to be that you
learn, or you review what we learnt every day, before you come to the next class. So
Im going to expect you to know what I already talked about before, so we wont be
reviewing it in the next lesson. We will just kind of keep on going, if you need to
review, you can watch the recording and review.

So todays lesson
the title of the lesson is:

There are 3 Kinds of Words in Arabic.

Let me just tell you what that means first. When you open up the Quran and you
start reciting, it doesnt matter what Surah, youre reciting:


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So youre reciting any page from the Quran, any Surah from the Quran. The one
you memorised or the one you havent memorised. Youre just reading.

Well, all of language is made up of letters; every word is made up of a few letters.
Letters come together and make what? Answer: Words. Words come together and
make what? Ans: Sentences. Sentences come together and make what? Ans:
Paragraphs. Paragraphs come together and make a book, stories and everything
else. So the smallest thing is letters, obviously Im not here to teach you letters
because you already know them. So we are going to take the next step the next
step after words is when letters come together, what do they make? Ans: Words.
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So when youre reading a word in the Quran, for that matter, any word in Arabic.

Later on, 
one day when we advance enough, we are not just going to read
Quran, we are going to read other stuff too, and we will learn to speak in Arabic too
one day, eventually. But before we get there, whenever you read a word in the
Quran, it has to belong to one of 3 familys. You can think of like, all words have a
family. In all of Arabic there are only 3 giant families. There are 3 kinds of words,
thats what I mean. Each of those families has a name, so in these 10 minutes, I
have to give you those names, what are those 3 names, and I have to tell you what
each of those names mean, what each of those categories mean. So for example,
even though I havent given you the terms yet, lets just say its Category A, Category
B, and Category C. Like Family A, Family B, and Family C. Whenever you are
reading something from Arabic, each word is either a member of Family A, or B or C.
Next word also, A, B or C. Your first job as a student of Arabic, is to know what are
those 3 families, and then when you look at an Arabic word, well, which family does
it belong to. Is family made of one member or lots of members? Ans: Lots of
members. So each family is going to have lots of members.

Here are the names of the 3 families of words in Arabic, meaning the 3 Kinds of
Words, the 3 Categories, that you are going to find:

Say that out loud for me. Now Im going to just say these definitions to you. You
dont just know their name, you know something about them too, by the end of these
few minutes.

So the first thing I want to tell you, I will start with
heres the definition of

, you have to remember it forever and ever.

DEFINITION
is a word that makes no sense, UNLESS another

word comes after it.

In other words, by itself a makes no sense.

Let me give you a silly example in English, not in Arabic yet. Let me give you an
example in English so you have some idea. By the way, from now on when I ask

you, whats a youre going to say: a word that makes no sense, unless
another word comes after it. Imagine I get off at the airport in a city, lets say I go to
Chicago, I dont know anybody there, but I have a hotel I want to go to, so I get
inside a cab. Taxi driver looks at me and says where do you want to go buddy? and
I look at him and I say, To, and he says you need to give me more information than
To, and I say At. Does At make sense by itself? Ans: No. How about In? To
the hotel I want to go in that city I want to go at this place.
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You need something more, To by itself, doesnt make any sense. So To would

be an example of a kind of

These things have names in English too, in English class they call this,
Prepositions. But Im not here to teach you English, Im here to teach you Arabic.

So the word I want to hear is,
a word that makes no sense, unless another
word comes after it.

If I asked you for an English example of a what would you give me? Ans:
To, the, In, of.

DEFINITION
is a word, that is either stuck in the PAST tense, or

the PRESENT tense, or the FUTURE tense.

In other words, if it has a tense then it must be a . So I give you a word like
travelled, they travelled
the word travelled, is that Past, Present or Future

tense?. Ans: Travelled is Past tense. If it has a Tense, you go with what? Ans:

What if I say, I am riding? Ans: Present the word riding has a tense

therefore it must be a

In English we like to call them VERBS

Verbs are past tense, present tense, future tense. But we are not going to use the

word verb, we are just going to use the word . So if I ask you whats a
what would you tell me? Ans: a word that is either Past tense, Present tense or
Future tense.

Whats again?
is a word that makes no sense, unless another word

comes after it.

So we got 2 definitions, we got one more to go.

is the longest definition.

DEFINITION
could be a :
PERSON, PLACE, THING, IDEA, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB andmore!

Person, Place, Thing, Idea, Adjective, Adverb and more!

is a lot of things. I say, Husna is a good student, Husna is a person or no?

Ans: Yes , so that would be a person.

If I say this lamp is weird, is lamp a thing? Ans: yes, so that would be

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If I said, thats a beautiful house, whats beautiful? ans: beautiful is an

adjective, adjectives would also be an

PERSON like Abba, Ustaad Nouman, Husna, muslims, people

PLACE give me an example of a place - house, museum, school

THING bed, marker, lamp, TV, board, camera, books, all of these are what?
Ans: things.

IDEA Ideas are words that you cant touch. Like for example anger,
happiness, education, knowledge, Islam. These are things we know about, we
talk about them, but we cant necessarily touch them. So those kinds of words are
called: ideas. In English grammar we call them infinitives. We are just going to call
them ideas for now. I will teach you more about them, when the time comes. So can
you give me some examples of ideas, quickly? Ans: Islam, anger, happiness,
sadness.

ADJECTIVES
whats a definition of an adjective? Something that describes
something. e.g. tall, short, pretty, ugly, fat, skinny, strong, weak, boring, exciting,
long.

ADVERBS
Maybe something you dont know yet, most of the time in English,
adverbs are words that have an LY at the end, not all the time, but most of the
times. I will give you one, you give me another e.g. quickly, slowly, happily, sadly,
angrily. Adverbs are basically L-Y words in English.

So far, I havent given you Arabic but we need to understand what an is.

An could be all of these things: PERSON, PLACE, THING, IDEA,

ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, and it could even be more stuff, that we will learn later.

Once again, Im going to say this one time, you try to repeat it after me:
Person, Place, Thing, Idea, Adjective, Adverb and more.

We are already out of time, but lets see, whats a ? Ans: is a word
that makes no sense, UNLESS another word comes after it.

Whats a ? Ans: is a word, that is either stuck in the PAST tense, or the
PRESENT tense, or the FUTURE tense.

Can you remember the definition of ? Ans: is a Person, Place, Thing,

Idea, Adjective, Adverb and more. Almost done, you need to give me an example of
each of those things. Ans: PERSON me, PLACE house , THING book ,
IDEA Islam , ADJECTIVE pretty , ADVERB slowly, and I wont ask you for
more because you dont know more yet.

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