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‫ممممم مممم‬

maatha ta”mal?

What do you do?

‫ممممممم مممم‬

maatha ta”maleen?

What do you do? (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana taaleb

I am a student

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana taalebah

I am a student (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana fannaan
I am an artist

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana fannaanah

I am an artist (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana saa’eq

I am a driver

‫ممممم ممم ممم‬

ana rajolo itfaa’

I am a firefighter

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana mohaamee

I am a lawyer

‫مممممم ممم‬

ana mohaamyyah

I am a lawyer (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana shortee

I am a policeman

‫مممم ممم‬

ana tabbaakh

I am a chef

‫مممم ممم‬

ana momarredh
I am a nurse

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana momarredhah

I am a nurse (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana tabeeb

I am a doctor

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana tabeebah

I am a doctor (addressing female)

‫مممممم ممممم ممم‬

ana mandoobo mabee”aat

I am a sales assistant

‫مممممم مممممم ممم‬

ana mandoobato mabee”aat

I am a sales assistant (addressing female)

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana mohandess

I am an engineer

‫مممممم ممم‬

ana mohandessah

I am an engineer (addressing female)

‫ممممممممم ممممممممم مم ممممم ممم‬

ana motakhassesson fee tecnolojial ma”loomaat

I am an IT professional

‫ممممممممم ممممممممم مم مممممم ممم‬

ana motakhassessaton fee tecnolojial ma”loomaat

I am an IT professional (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana ”aalem

I am a scientist

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana ”aalemah

I am a scientist (addressing female)

‫مممم ممم‬

ana mo”allem

I am a teacher

‫ممممم ممم‬

ana mo”allemah

I am a teacher (addressing female)

‫مممممم ممم‬

ana mooseeqy

I am a musician

‫ممممممم ممم‬

ana mooseeqyyah

I am a musician (addressing female)

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Hey! Ready to learn the Arabic Alphabet?

You have just made the first and most important step on your journey to learning how to read
and write Arabic. You will amaze yourself at how fast you can pick it up.

I created this site and the free Android and iOS apps to help complete newbies master their
first steps in learning Arabic. Right now it seems like the world has become scared of an
alphabet…mere shapes, letters are being wrongly associated with terrible acts of madness.

First of all some clarification on terminology; the use of the terms “Arabic Alphabet” and
“Arabic Letters” is considered incorrect by some but for complete beginners it’s the best
option. So technically Arabic doesn’t have an ‘alphabet’, it is referred to as an ‘abjad’ and the
letters are called ‘glyphs’. Learn the essential stuff here

But let’s keep it basic! Arabic alphabet and Arabic letters works just fine.

Another point to note is how we have chosen to spell and name each letter (or “glyph” if
you’re feeling academic!)

We chose to present the letters with the most descriptive spellings and not confuse you with
intimidating transliterations which use apostrophes and even numbers to represent sounds
made by the letters.

Cheers,
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Subject and object pronouns in standard

and Egyptian Arabic

 Subject pronouns - ‫( ضمائر الفاعل‬Damaa'ir al-faa3il)

 Object pronouns - ‫( ضمائر المفعول به‬Damaa'ir al-maf3uul bihi)

Subject pronouns

Subject pronouns (I, you, we, he, she, we, they) take the place of a noun and function as the
subject of a sentence.

‫( أنا من أمريكا‬ana min amriika)

I am from the US.

‫( هو مهندس‬howwa mohandis)
He is an engineer.

Note: In Arabic, the subject pronoun is frequently dropped. You can tell from a verb
conjugation who the subject is, so it's not really necessary to use the subject pronoun in such
cases except for emphasis. However, in equational (verbless) sentences like the two above,
you do need the subject pronoun.

Subject pronouns in standard and Egyptian Arabic

English Standard Arabic Egyptian Arabic

 I )ana( ‫أنا‬
you (masc.) )anta( ‫انت‬ )inta( ‫انت‬
Singular you (fem.) )anti( ‫انت‬ )inti( ‫انتى‬
he )howwa( ‫هو‬
she )heyya( ‫هي‬
we )naHnu( ‫نحن‬
Dual you )antuma( ‫أنتما‬
they )humaa( ‫هما‬
we )naHnu( ‫نحن‬ )eHna( ‫احنا‬
you (masc.) )antum( ‫أنتم‬
)intu( ‫انتو‬
Plural you (fem.) )antunna( ‫أنتن‬
they (masc.) )homa( ‫هم‬
)homa( ‫هم‬
they (fem.) )hunna( ‫هن‬

Note: In English, there is only one second-person pronoun, "you," which is used whether
you're talking to one person, two people, or more. But in Arabic, as you see above, there are
masculine and feminine versions of "you," as well as singular, dual (standard Arabic only),
and plural versions: ‫ انت\انت‬if you're addressing one person, ‫ أنتما‬if you're addressing two (in
standard Arabic), and ‫ أنتم\أنتن‬if you're addressing three or more people. Note that the dual
"you" (‫ )أنتما‬is the same regardless of gender. In standard Arabic, there is also a dual version
of "they" (‫ هما‬- which is gender-indiscriminate as well) and masculine and feminine versions
of the plural "they" (‫ هم‬and ‫)هن‬.

Note that Egyptian Arabic has fewer pronouns than standard Arabic, since it has no dual
pronouns; it just has plural pronouns that are used to talk about two or more people, of any
gender. And the colloquial ‫ انتو‬and ‫ هم‬are gender-neutral.

Object pronouns

Object pronouns (me, you, us, him, her, them) are used when you do something directly to
someone or something else. In Arabic, these pronouns are suffixes that are attached to the
verb:

‫( ضربته‬Darabatu)
She hit him.

‫( يشكروني‬yaškuruuni)
They thank me.
Object pronouns in standard and Egyptian Arabic

English Standard Arabic Egyptian Arabic

me (-ni) ‫ـني‬
you (masc.) (-ka) ‫ـك‬ (-ak) ‫ـك‬
Singular you (fem.) (-ki) ‫ـك‬ (-ik) ‫ـك‬
him (-u) ‫ـه‬
her (-ha) ‫ـها‬
us (-na) ‫ـنا‬
Dual you (-kuma) ‫ـكما‬
them (-huma) ‫ـهما‬
us (-na) ‫ـنا‬
you (masc.) (-kum) ‫ـكم‬
(-ku/-kum) ‫ـكو\ـكم‬
Plural you (fem.) (-kunna) ‫ـكن‬
them (masc.) (-hum) ‫ـهم‬
(-hom) ‫ـهم‬
them (fem.) (-hunna) ‫ـهن‬

Note: In colloquial Arabic, ‫ ـكو‬and ‫ ـكم‬are both used, but the former is more colloquial than
the latter.

Here are some examples of object pronoun usage, using the verb ‫( سأل‬sa'al) - "to ask."

English Standard Arabic Egyptian Arabic

He asked me (sa'alni) ‫سألني‬
He asked you (masc.) (sa'alaka) ‫سألك‬ (sa'alak) ‫سألك‬
Singular He asked you (fem.) (sa'alaki) ‫سألك‬ (sa'alik) ‫سألك‬
He asked him (sa'alahu [more standard] or sa'alu [more colloquial]) ‫سأله‬
He asked her (sa'alaha [more standard] or sa'alha [more colloquial]) ‫سألها‬
He asked us (sa'alna) ‫سألنا‬
Dual He asked you (sa'alkuma) ‫سألكما‬
He asked them (sa'alhuma) ‫سألهما‬
He asked us (sa'alna) ‫سألنا‬
He asked you (masc.) (sa'alkum) ‫سألكم‬
(sa'alku/sa'alkum) ‫سألكو\ـكم‬
Plural He asked you (fem.) (sa'alkunna) ‫سألكن‬
He asked them (masc.) (sa'alhum) ‫سألهم‬
(sa'alhom) ‫سألهم‬
He asked them (fem.) (sa'alhunna) ‫سألهن‬

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