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Gulf Arabic
Pronunciation

...P.1.1 Arabic Sounds

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

...Full Audio, Text and Exercises

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 - The Dual Form

That's easy: duals express the quantity of two. There is a special ending in Arabic –ayn, which gets appended to a noun. Notice that hidden –t in feminine nouns appears. For example:

Sadeeg – friend => Sadeegayn – two friends (males)
Sadeega(t) – friend => Sadeegatayn or in fast speech Sadeegtayn – two friends (females)

sharika – company => sharikatayn – two companies