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...P.1.1 Arabic Sounds

Gulf Arabic
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...V.2.1 Greetings
...V.2.2 Short Descriptive Phrases

...V.3.1 At the Airport
...V.3.2 Asking for Directions
...V.3.3 Expressions of Location
...V.3.4 Professions
...V.3.5 Nationalities

...V.4.1 How Much Does it Cost?
...V.4.2 At the Market
...V.4.3 The Days of the Week
...V.4.4 The Months
...V.4.5 The Colours

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...G.2.1. Definite Article
...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns
...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns
...G.2.4. Possessives with maal-
...G.2.5 Commands and Requests
...G.2.6 Broken Plural
...G.2.7 Plural -aat
...G.2.8 Plural -iin
...G.2.9 Plural -iyya

...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat
...G.3.2 The Dual Form
...G.3.3 Adjectives
...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes
...G.3.5 Prepositions
...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind-
...G.3.7 Past Tense I

...G.4.1 More on Adjectives
...G.4.2 Comparison Forms
...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals
...G.4.4 Telling the Time
...G.4.5 Question Words
...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns)
...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Grammar - The Definite Article

Al-, usually pronounced –il, li- or just –l in Gulf Arabic. It’s like the English “the”, but it’s used more often.

Examples: li-kwayt (Kuwait), il-ba7rayn (Bahrain), il-imaaraat (the Emirates), il-amiir (the Emir, the ruler)

Rule: The –l of the definite article is doubled when before words beginning with r-, n-, s-, z-, d-, dh-, D-, DH-, t-, T-, th-, TH-.

Examples: in-naas (the people), r-rayyaal (the man), is-sadeeg (the friend), ith-thallaaja (the refrigerator)

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