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Vocabulary-Arabic

Arabic vocabulary

To build up a large vocabulary in Arabic you need a structure. During my lessons I have seen that almost all teachers use the same way of building vocabulary. In this way you take the words from the text and then put them in a diagram. The advantage of this method is: You learn the words from the context. You can determine your starting level yourself; the lower your level, the simpler the text must be. You can apply this to any Arabic text, so you can practice endlessly. Below I explain this method in 5 steps.

Supplies

For this method you will need: An A4 size notebook Highlighters

Step 1 - Types of Words

In step 1 we first analyze what types of words are in the text. In Arabic there are 3 parts of speech. al-ism (اسم)al-fi'l (فعل)al-harf (حرف) Read the text or the first page and highlight each ism (اسم) with a highlighter, for example green. Mark each fi'l with a highlighter, for example pink.

Step 2 - Vocabulary al-asmaa' (الأسماء)

make 4 columns on one page in your notebook. Each column will be given the following title: column 1: مفرد (singular) column 2: جمع (plural) column 3: مرادف (synonym) column 4: عكس (homonym) Write down all the asmaa' in your notebook that you marked in step 1 . Write words that are singular in column 1 and words that are plural in column 2. Look up the singular/plural of the word in the dictionary. Look up the synonym of the word in the dictionary. If I can't find a synonym for the word, I usually write down a short description of the word. You can find this definition in an Arabic-Arabic dictionary. Search for the homonym of the word in the dictionary if this is relevant, but this is not relevant for every word.

Step 3 - Vocabulary al-af'aal (الأَفْعال)

make 4 columns on one page in your notebook. Each column is given the following title: column 1: ماض (past tense) column 2: مضارع (present tense) column 3: مصدر (infinitive) column 4: مرادف (synonym) Look up the word in a dictionary and fill in the first three columns in. Look up the synonym of the word in the dictionary. If I can't find a synonym for the word, I usually write down a short description of the word. You can find this definition in an Arabic - Arabic dictionary.

Step 4 - next text

Go to the next text or page and start again at step 1. It is important that in steps 2 and 3 you only write down the words that you have not yet written down.