Master grammar with comprehensive explanations and examples
Letters ا ب ت ث ج ح خ — four positional forms
Can recognize and write the first 7 Arabic letters in all positional forms
Letters د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض — non-connecting and emphatic letters
Can recognize and write letters د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض including emphatics
Letters ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي — completing the alphabet
Can recognize and write all 28 Arabic letters
أنا أنتَ أنتِ هو هي نحن أنتم هم + dual forms
Can use personal pronouns to introduce myself and talk about others
Suffixed possessive pronouns: ـي (my), ـكَ (your m), ـكِ (your f), ـهُ (his), ـها (her), ـنا (our), ـهم (their)
Object pronouns suffixed to verbs: رأيتُهُ (I saw him), أحبّها (he loves her), سألتُكَ (I asked you)
Possessive construction linking two nouns
I can form possessive constructions using Idafa
Common Arabic prepositions and their usage
I can use common prepositions to describe location and direction
Negation with لا, ليس, and ما
I can negate sentences using لا, ليس, and ما
Adjective agreement in gender, number, and definiteness
I can use adjectives with correct agreement in gender and definiteness
Verbal sentence with VSO word order
I can form verbal sentences with correct VSO word order
How Arabic says "I have" without a verb: عِنْدَ with pronoun endings, negation with لَيْسَ and ما, questions with هَلْ, and when to use مَعي or لي instead.
I can say what I and other people have and don't have, and ask someone whether they have something.
Saying "there is / there are" in Arabic: هُناكَ, يوجَد / توجَد and the place-first sentence, the indefinite noun after them, negation with لَيْسَ هُناكَ and لا يوجَد, and questions.
I can say what there is and isn't in a place, ask whether something is nearby, and describe a flat or a neighbourhood.
Numbers 1–10 with gender polarity rule
I can count from 1 to 10 and apply the gender polarity rule
Arabic numbers from 11 to 100: the teens, the tens in -ūna, "one and twenty" order, the gender of the teens, and the singular noun after 11-99.
I can count to 100, give my age with عُمْري ... سَنَةً and read prices, and I recognise that after 11-99 the noun is singular.
Present tense conjugation with prefix-suffix system
I can conjugate regular verbs in the present tense
Past tense conjugation with suffix system
I can conjugate regular verbs in the past tense
Sound masculine plural (-ون/-ين) and sound feminine plural (-ات)
I can form sound masculine and feminine plurals
Common broken plural patterns for everyday nouns
I can recognize and use common broken plural patterns
The Arabic dual: the -āni / -ayni ending for exactly two, ة opening to ت, dual adjectives and the pronouns هُما and أَنْتُما.
I can talk about two people or two things with the dual ending, and make adjectives and pronouns agree with it.
The nisba ending ـِيّ / ـِيَّة: nationalities from countries, adjectives from cities and ordinary nouns, dropping ال, ة and ا of the base, and agreement.
I can say where people and things come from with a nisba (مِصْرِيّ، مِصْرِيَّة) and recognise nisba adjectives in what I read.
Past tense 'to be' (كان/كانت) and its sisters: subject stays nominative, predicate becomes accusative
Imperative (command) form derived from present tense: اُكتُب (write!), اِقرَأ (read!), اِذهَب (go!)
Future tense with سَـ (near future) or سوف (distant future) prefixed to present tense verbs
Introduction to verb forms (أوزان): Form I فَعَلَ (basic), Form II فَعَّلَ (intensify), Form III فاعَلَ (reciprocal)
Saying "must" in Arabic: the fixed word يَجِبُ, أَنْ with the subjunctive, the person on عَلى (عَلَيَّ أَنْ), and the difference between يَجِبُ أَلّا and لا يَجِبُ أَنْ.
I can say what I and others must or must not do, and that something is not necessary, using يَجِبُ أَنْ and عَلَيَّ أَنْ.
إنّ (indeed/verily) and its sisters: subject becomes accusative, predicate stays nominative
Basic conditional with إذا + past tense: إذا درستَ نجحتَ (if you study, you succeed)
Comparative/superlative using the أفعل pattern: أكبر (bigger), أصغر (smaller), أحسن (better)