Determining Case Endings

Covers Logic 13 18 in My First Arabic Logic 19th June 2013 (Version 1.0). Feedback by PM to M. Hua

Tutoring Notes For Xifu Naser Arabic Class

ABOUT THIS NOTE

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Determining Case Endings Ver: 1.0

This note covers grammatical logic as per the scope covered in My First Arabic Logic only. If you notice, my first Arabic logic deals only with singulars among others. Its required so we can learn step by step without getting overwhelmed. Dont panic or set up mental block in your mind. Just put one foot in front at a time. If you already aiya now, you might aiyoyo soon. It wont be long before you reach aiyoyo! amma! appa! and give up. So positive thinking is required to see you follow the journey till the end

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This note also focuses on how to determine case endings only. It is not meant to explain what nominative, genitive and accusative case is.

THAT SOUNDS COOL AND ALL BUT WHAT IS CASE ENDINGS IN ARABIC?

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They are vowel marks (baris) that are given to the last letter of a word to indicate the words grammatical function. Is the word the subject of a sentence? Is it an object of a verb? Etc. Capish? It applies to noun/adjectives only!

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SO WHAT ARE THE VOWEL MARKS USED?

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There are just 6 of them,

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Determining Case Endings Ver: 1.0

Figure 1 - Table Of Case Endings

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To recall easily, associate the letters + sounds in your mind like so

Genitive in / i Accusative an / a Nominative gets the leftover which is un / u

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) A word will not have tanwin when the determiner is the (

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Determining Case Endings Ver: 1.0

READY? LETS GET STARTED!

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In general, the steps to determine case endings are like this.

Figure 2 - The Basic Step To Derive Case Endings

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The logic is depicted by the following flow chart. This should be easy to remember.

Figure 3 - Logic To Determine Case Endings (Macro Level)

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This is the same thing except at the micro level where every steps are shown

Determining Case Endings Ver: 1.0

Figure 4 - Logic To Determine Case Endings (Micro Level)

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To make it easier to understand lets vowelize (put baris) on

a. So, 1st step, we need to have them translated. We do that by using our superduper memory or the dictionary. We would get She Is Meeting A Crazy/Mad Woman Today. She Is Meeting is an imperfect verb so we vowelized it by using wazan or another way of looking at it is vowelize it exactly as how the imperfect verb would be in its default form ()

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b. Next ( A Crazy/Mad Woman). From the table in Figure 1, we identify this word as accusative because its an object to the verb . Thus using the flow chart in Figure 4, well get c.

Determining Case Endings Ver: 1.0

for .

( Today) is an adverb and we just simply follow the dictionary. To summarize, the solution is like this

In its complete form, the answer would be

Thats all folks!

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