Key Features
Key Features
Levantine Arabic Verbs: Conjugation Tables and Grammar is a systematic verb guide for Lebanese and Levantine Colloquial Arabic.
This comprehensive verb reference teaches you how Levantine verbs work as a system. Rather than presenting isolated forms, the book organizes verbs into clearly defined patterns, allowing you to conjugate hundreds of additional verbs listed in the indexes. The Lebanese variety is used as a representative form of Levantine Colloquial Arabic, making the material broadly useful across the Levant.
Each verb is presented with full conjugation tables, phonemic transcription to show pronunciation and stress, and multiple example sentences that illustrate real usage.
What’s inside
- 103 conjugation tables covering common Levantine verb patterns.
- A pattern-based classification system for extending conjugation to new verbs.
- Five essential verb forms: perfect, imperfect, bi-imperfect, imperative, and active participle.
- Arabic script with phonemic transcription for accurate pronunciation.
- Native-speaker example sentences for every verb.
- Grammar explanations covering pronouns, tenses, and verb measures.
- Prepositional phrase tables for frequent verbal constructions.
- Comprehensive indexes organized by pattern and meaning.
Who it’s for: Learners of Levantine Colloquial Arabic who want to move beyond memorization and understand how verbs function across the dialect.
Audio: Audio recordings by a native speaker are available to download or stream below.
Use this eBook as a core reference for mastering verbs in spoken Levantine Arabic.
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I concur with the other reviewers, this is a really useful resource, and there simply isn't anything else like it that I know of specifically made for Lebanese. It's well produced and laid out, too, and the short grammar in the back pages helps make sense of the material. It's an invaluable complement to any other course material or grammars that you might have. There are complete tables for over a hundred verbs, and they are used to model the remaining several hundred verbs in the index. For those, I do wish the index directed you straight to the relevant table, instead of having to cross-reference the verb type first, but this doesn't make the book any less useful, it would just make looking them up slightly quicker. On the other hand, that omission forces you to look at similar verbs and get a feel for the different verb groups, so perhaps it was a deliberate choice. Get this one in hard copy, and keep it on your desk.
I would say this book (get the physical copy!!) was without much doubt the most useful purchase I've ever made for Arabic learning. I took it wherever I went when living in Beirut and it really helped me transition into fluency. Me and my friend used to use it a lot for grammar drilling/productive tasks. Now I'm working on Jordanian Arabic as I'll be doing field work there so will for sure get the Palestinian version! Thank you for these excellent resources!
This is one of the best Levantine Arabic books you can buy. I have gotten my money's worth out of this book a hundred times over! I am constantly referring back to the book to figure out how to form new verbs that I come across. I can't say I have found any other book on Levantine verbs that comes close to this one.
If you are even somewhat considering buying this book, go ahead and do it... you will not regret it!
Great resource, highly recommend!
As a beginning learner mostly self-teaching Arabic (with an iTalki tutor) this book has been an invaluable resource. So helpful. Took me a while to figure out how to use it to its fullest extent but once I did it brought my learning to a new level!
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