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Gulf Arabic
Pronunciation

Gulf Arabic
Vocabulary

...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

Gulf Arabic
Grammar

...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 - Possessive Pronouns

-i (my, mine)

Sadeeg – friend
Sadeegi – my friend

bayt – home, house
bayti – my home, my house

Kitaab – book
Kitaabi – my book

sayyaara – car, automobile
sayyaarti – my car

’sayyara’ is feminine. Most feminine nouns in Arabic end in –a. However there is a so-called hidden -t. It comes up when you need to add the possessive to the nouns just like in the above example.

-ak, -ik (your, yours – MASCULINE SINGULAR)

Sadeegik – your friend
baytak – your house
kitaabik – your book
sayyaaratik – your car

-ach, -ich (your, yours – FEMININE SINGULAR)

Sadeegich – your (fem.) friend
baytich – your house (i.e. the house of a female)
kitaabich – your book (i.e. the book of a female)
sayyartich – your car (i.e. the car belongs to a woman)

-ah (his)

Sadeegah – his friend
baytah – his house
kitaabah – his book
sayyaartah – his car

-ha (her)

Sadeegha – her friend (usually pronounced Sadeegga)
baytha – her house (usually pronounced baytta)
kitaabha – her book (usually pronounced kitaabba)
sayyaaratha – her car (usually pronounced sayyaaratta)

-na (our, ours)

Sadeegna – our friend
baytna – our home
kitaabna – our book
sayyaaratna – our car

-kum (your, yours – PLURAL, several people)

Sadeegkum – your friend
baytkum – your house
kitaabkum – your book
sayyaaratkum – your car

-hum (their, theirs)

Sadeeghum – their friend (usually pronounced Sadeeggum)
baythum – their home (usually pronounced bayttum)
kitaabhum – their book (usually pronounced kitaabbum)
sayyaarathum – their car (usually pronounced sayyaarattum)

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