Product Description

Most frequently used Arabic verbs are conjugated, one verb to a page. A concentrated review of Arabic verb forms for both beginning and advanced students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #489580 in Books
• Published on: 1978-04-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Language Notes
Text: English, Arabic

Customer Reviews

Great for reference, not for instruction
I have been studying the Arabic language for about a year and felt that it was time to start really learning the verbs. I searched and found only this book as an option for Arabic verbs. It is great that it even exists... however, it doesn't completely satisfy my need for help in the area. The information is there for the verbs that were selected by the editor, but there are some weird ones that they selected to include (to turn yellow...?, to be white...?, etc.) and some common ones that they selected to exclude (to make, to throw, etc.). I was also hoping to see the verbs in alphabetical order for easy and quick refernce and with English translations. All in all this book is great for reference, but not really helpful for true verb study at a beginner level. This review is from a person who speaks 3 languages at 90% or better. Good Luck!

Very Vague
This book offers a fair amount of verbs, but there is no english translation to tell you how each verb is translated. There is also no transliteration either, so if you CANNOT read Arabic this book is worthless to you. And even if you can (I can read it phonetically), without the english tranlation you won't know the meaning of what your reading. I gave this book one star because I couldn't go any lower.

Adequate, but...
I'll add my voice to the comments listed above and below. This book gives you just what it says: 201 Arabic verbs, in their passive and active forms, with Masdar. And that's it. The lack of an index makes finding them surprisingly difficult, and some very basic verbs are left out. On the positive side, you get every single form of the jussive. On the negative side, they filled up the pages with every single form of the jussive! A rather mechanical task.

My chief problem is not what this book is, but what it isn't. If you look at the book "201 Hebrew Verbs" you find a completely different pattern. Indices abound, and verbs are listed by roots, with (reasonably) complete workings through the binyan to get the various forms. An immense help to the student, it is practically an education in itself. Granted Hebrew and Arabic are different languages, but the grammatical structures are close enough that something along those lines could have been attempted.
I gave the book three stars because it did what it said it would do, but looking at what some of the other 201 books did, I feel a sense of disappointment, of opportunities lost.