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Levantine Arabic Verbs helps learners of all levels master verb conjugation as well as natural pronunciation.
What's Inside
- 100+ conjugation tables featuring some of the most common verbs and “pseudo-verb” prepositional phrases used in daily language.
- Phonemic transcription alongside the Arabic script in the conjugation tables to support accurate pronunciation and to help learners get comfortable reading Arabic script as written for the dialect.
- Usage notes offering helpful explanations and context.
- Example sentences under each conjugation table, illustrating verbs in various persons and tenses, with natural meanings and idiomatic usage.
- Downloadable audio tracks featuring all conjugated verb forms and example sentences spoken by a native speaker from Lebanon, available to stream or download free of charge.
- Grammar reference for Levantine Arabic verbs, covering tenses, moods, negative verbs, compound tenses, and more.
- Indexes listing 750 additional verbs that can be conjugated using the tables as models.
Dialect Information
Which Levantine dialect is this?
Levantine Arabic Verbs is specifically Lebanese (Beiruti). Because the differences between Lebanese and Syrian Arabic are marginal (both being northern Levantine dialects), this book is also suitable for those studying Syrian Arabic. For southern Levantine dialects (Palestinian and Jordanian), we recommend our book Palestinian Arabic Verbs.
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Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
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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