The Arabic verb system is very logical, however, there are exceptions as in any language. The conjugation rules are based on 14 major conjugation patterns with 182 subtypes. Since the underlying system is totally different from English, beginners often struggle to conjugate verbs.

Now, there is help.  A great app called CAVE  (مَغارَة), available for Android and iOS.

Have you been in the following situation? You know every single word in an Arabic sentence, but you don’t have a clue what the sentence is all about? Well, the painful reason is: you don’t understand the grammar. ARABIC FOR NERDS 2 can change that.

Whether you hate or love it: if you want to buy Arabic books, amazon is not the best place. There are many specialized online book sellers for Arabic books – novels in Arabic, Islamic books, book on Arabic grammar, etc.

Over the years, I have used many of them to fill my personal library. I would like tell you about my experiences, so you may save yourself the hassle. Here are some recommendations.

I recently was in Poznań, Poland, and learned by coincidence that one of the greatest Arab scholars, al-Kindī (الْكِنْدِي), was one of the  pioneers of cryptology .

Answer: You have to  focus on the second “l”  (ل) in Allah (الله). Let’s analyze the so-called Grand Word and derive two rules that are easy to remember.