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 - To Have: 3ind + Prepositional Suffix
There is no verb to have. Its meaning is usually expressed by the preposition 3ind (at) and a prepositional suffix, e.g.
3indi fluus waayid – I have a lot of money inta ma 3indik? – Don’t you have?(You don’t have?)
shay – something, anything, a thing fagiir (pl. fugara) - poor il fagiir ma 3indah shay – the poor (person) doesn’t have anything ghani (pl. aghniya) – rich kethiir (kethiira, kethiriin) – many (like waayid) il-aghniya 3indhum sayyaraat kethiira – (the) rich (people) have many cars
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