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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 with '-maal'

There’s another way to form a possessive: by using a definite masculine noun (a noun with al- in front) plus maali, maalik, maalich, maalah, maalha, maalna, maalkum, maalhum. For feminine nouns, you would use maalti, maaltik, maaltich, maaltah, maalatha, maalatna, maalatkum, maalathum.

Examples:
kitaabi – my book (notice that you don’t use the definite article il-)
il-kitaab maali – my book (It could also mean “The b learn arabic Abu Dhabi ook is mine”.)
hay l-kitaab maali. – Here’s my book.

maktabna – our office
il-maktab maalna – our office (It could also mean “The office is ours.”)
l-maktab maalna ba3eed. Our office is far away.

thallaajat-ha – her refrigerator
ith-thallaja maalatha – her refrigerator, her fridge (It could also mean “The fridge is hers.”)
hay ith-thallaaja maalatha. – Here’s her fridge.

Notice that if you don’t use il-, and say, for example, maktab maalna this would mean “an office of ours” (one of several). kitaab maali – a book of mine.

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