20 questions for: Reginald Hefner (#13)
Episode #13 of my series “9273 roots”: 20 questions for the man who speaks all the languages which the famous Middlebury Language School offers (except for Korean): Reginald Hefner
Lisān al-‘Aarab (لسان العرب), the famous dictionary of Classical Arabic, contains 9273 roots (and 4,493.934 words). A huge playground for people who are passionate about Arabic such as…
Mahmoud Gomah
Mahmoud Gomah
مَحْمُود عَبْد الرّازِق جُمعة
مَحْمُود عَبْد الرّازِق جُمعة
The man who tells native Arabic speakers what mistakes they make.
Tenses in Arabic are easy compared to other languages. The Arabic verb basically knows only two different (morphological) forms: the present and past tense.