10000 Arabic Verbs (Arabic Edition)

To any student of Arabic who has bought numerous books on Arabic only to disappointed by its layout, lack of ease of use, hard to read print, lack of organization and lack of content...[I can go on], then please rest assured that finally, FINALLY there is an Arabic verb conjugation book out there that shines a ray of light and hope upon the juggernaut world of Arabic verbs.EASE OF USE:This book is super easy to understand and use. Even the table of contents is short and to the point.Here is the table of contents.Introduction page 5Purpose of this book page 5How to use this book page 5List of conjugated verbs page 6Verb tables page 13Verb lists page 227The author gets right to it from the start. There is literally one page that will explain to the reader how to use the book and his explanation is simple and straight forward. He then provides a list of the 213 verbs that are fully conjugated. Next to each verb the author has designated a number to that verb (1, 2, 3 etc.), then he gives the verb in Arabic, then he provides the root of the verb. He then provides the meaning in English and finally, he provides the form the verb falls into (1, 2, 3 etc.).The genius of this book is that the author has designated a number to each verb. Why is this brilliant? Well, when you flip to the back of the book to look at the list of 10,000 verbs, you will see that the author has listed all the verbs underneath certain numbers (1, 2, 3 etc.). When the reader/user of the book sees a verb listed under a certain number this immediately informs the reader as to how that verb is to be conjugated.So for example, in the table of 213 verb conjugations, verb #6 is "To Be Postponed". When you flip to the back of the book to look at the 10,000 verbs you will see many verbs listed under #6. One of those verbs for example is, "To Marry". When you see this, you quickly understand that the verb "To Marry" conjugates the same exact way as, "To Be Postponed". EASY!VERBS:This book actually has VERBS in it. You know how it is when you purchase an Arabic verb book and the author gives you a smattering of verbs and then does not even bother to give full conjugations of the verbs itself! FRUSTRATING! Well "10000 Arabic Verbs" is a far cry from that.The author actually has 213 verbs fully laid out throughout the book in easy to read tables and at the back of the book he has listed 10,000 Arabic verbs for the reader to look up and learn. This book is packed with verbs!LAYOUT:The layout of the book is superb. The tables are large and clean. The print is clear and easy to read and not too small.PRONOUNS GIVEN:And yes, next to all the verbs the author clearly indicates what pronoun goes with the particular verb: I, he, she, you (male and female), we, etc.LISTING OF VERB BY ROOT:At the back of the book the author does not list verbs by alphabetical order in English. The author actually lists all verbs by conjugation via the Arabic root underneath a designated number. This method is easy to understand but it does take a little getting used too.This may be the most challenging part for the user of this book because they will have to get used to looking up Arabic verbs by the root. In the long run this will only benefit the reader as this will enable them to use an Arabic dictionary in the future when they progress to such a level as where they can use an Arabic dictionary. Also, looking up Arabic verbs by root allows the user to deepen their understanding of the Arabic language and they will gradually begin to understand many words by simply being able to identify the root of the word when they see it.CONCLUSION:All in all, this book is by far the best that I have seen out there for the English reader/English student of Arabic. It has the largest list of verbs ever. I'd say this is a must have for your library on Arabic language study. I plan to be spending a lot of time with this book.Hope this review helped.Peace!

This book is good for its unique purpose:It provides (1) dozens of conjugation tables and (2) a long lists of verbs organized by Triliteral or Quadriliteral Form and whether they have any distinguishing features such as being sound, or containing weak letters (assimilated, hollow, defective), or being hamzated verbs or geminate verbs. The triliteral verbs are also separated by which pair of middle diacritics (the 'ayn in fa'ala) they take for the past tense and present tense, i.e., the stem vowel.Its main purpose is to teach conjugations for 213 different verb forms, varying by measure, stem vowel, and the other features mentioned above.As others have said, the organization of the book is difficult. I think it would have made more sense to organize the verbs by Form (e.g., Form I, Form II, Form III; QI, QII, QIII) and features, but instead the 213 forms are sorted Alphabetically by their 3- or 4-letter root.If you are looking for how to conjugate a specific word, you would have to first look through the entire list of 213 verbs to find the specific form that matches, and it could be anywhere in the list because it's sorted alphabetically. I think the verb they chose for each conjugation table is a highly frequent verb for that specific verb form (such as Qaala - to say - for all hollow Fatha/Damma verbs), but you still would have to look through the entire list of 213 verbs to find the specific form you want.Verb lists of this sort can also be found on Wiktionary (e.g., "Arabic form-I verbs by vowel"), but there are some rarer forms (only seen in poetry or classical Arabic) included in the conjugation tables and lists.

This is a baffling book. It consists of 213 verb tables that act as a paradigm for the conjugation of 10,000 Arabic verbs. In this, it follows a number of other available books, such as those by Sam Ammar & Joseph Dichy; Daniel Reig (both very comprehensive), or shorter versions concentrating on the most frequently used verbs by John Mace; Wightwick & Gaafar; Scheindlin; etc. It is also printed clearly, with the verbs fully voweled, and with very legible text. The book under review, especially because of its comprehensiveness, therefore, has the potential to be of enormous benefit to students.However, the peculiar manner in which the verb list (the 10,000 verbs) is presented negates the book's usefulness. It lists the verbs under which of the 213 paradigms (conjugations) the verb would follow. Thus unless you already under which paradigm a verb falls, i.e., you already know the how the verb is conjugated, you could have quite a task to find it (the verb list consists of 167 pages). For most students, this defeats the point of the book -- if you already know the pattern of the conjugation, why would you need this book?The more sensible and useful way of listing the 10,000 verbs would have been to list them alphabetically, either in root form, as done in the other books mentioned in this review, or (preferably) in whole word order (as, for example, in Schendlin) and indicate against each verb a number from 1 to 213 to show which pattern of conjugation it follows. I would urge Mr Shaffique to adopt this approach in a subsequent edition; he would put us all in his debt. As the book stands, it cannot be recommended.