The Arabic X Forms! [Long Short]

[@me5o164]

As a native Arab speaker I have to say Why weren’t my teachers in my school days this clear

[@ramimohamed4255]

because teaching natives isn't like teaching non-natives

[@cielsteam]

@@ramimohamed4255 We could have still benefited from this information, though.

[@3mar00ss6]

because school is not for teaching you useful information it's to waste 12 years of your life teaching you how to become a slave

[@omarsayed3874]

For me I learned some but not all of them at school, maybe it depends on the country

[@infernus..]

Why would he teach you such obvious things?

[@nonameuserua]

no windows 9, no iphone 9, no verb 9 🤔

[@zakianwar1151]

lol

[@EdKolis]

No Mario Kart 9 either...

[@interbeamproductions]

form 9 is rare, and it's about colors (and in some dialects, emotions associated with them) like black is associated with sadness, as the color is used for darker, scarier/grieving moments this isn't unique to Arabic though, in English we have dark(something scary or sad) and bright(feeling content)

[@nonameuserua]

@@interbeamproductions yeep, I knew that, and human posted this explanation not a day ago, was just kidding He said it was pretty rare and often associated with humiliation, yet it would be quite useful to have them though. In European languages, such verbs are used a lot, not only in English, in French for instance (like ‘rougir’ to redden etc), in my native Slavic ones too; talking about forming them out of any adjective, not only colours

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@interbeamproductions could you give us some examples of the ninth verb form please? 🙏 ❤

[@annetnt83]

PLEASE dont stop making videos. I just found your channel an hour back, and ive been watching the videos nonestop. your channel is one of the most informative channels on the platform. Keep doing what you do ❤️

[@humanteneleven]

That’s so sweet 🥺🥺🥺 ty!!!

[@dh4444]

Same. I always liked etymology and linguistics but these videos are both extremely informative and interesting. Very fun 😅

[@CheetahBoy-gx2dx]

ikr, his videos are so underated

[@ramiawibenyafim9476]

As an Arabic literature student (not originally Arab myself) I found your explanation way easier and also more accurate to teach newbies! In my first semesters, they taught us the conjugation and syntax based on a book called Mabādā al-Arabiyyā by Rashid Chartuni, its for a century ago, overall I wanted to say that if more Arabic language instructions were as simplified as what you did here, maybe more people would have been interested and not quit the learning after facing some challenging grammar! Also I love your channel, amazing content! ❤️ keep doing what you’re doing 🥰

[@scp049leplaguedocter3]

where are you from

[@cheikhsalek7695]

مبادئ العربية (للشرتوني)! What a beautiful series of books! Especially the 3rd level with its Arabesque in turquoise!

[@Vlugazoide]

Learning the 7 forms of lightsaber combat + the 20 forms of arabic is something I don't believe anyone alive has achieved

[@chrisfusion6945]

Fucking watch me bro. I'll even throw in vapaad

[@Enforcedcraft]

​@@chrisfusion6945throw in Tawheed for the kicks and giggles if you are Muslim hahah

[@tdugong]

​​@@Enforcedcraft add Tasawuf for that old man words of wisdom.

[@Sussauce77]

⁠@@Enforcedcraftdon’t joke about deen

[@adamyohan]

As an Arabic (Libyan) viewer, I had a hard time studying the language academically but plenty of writing and reading made me understand the language intrinsically to the point I don't need to study it much. But these videos show me all sorts of nuances I didn't understand and it's genuinely awesome. Keep up the great work.

[@scp049leplaguedocter3]

libyans are not technically arabs

[@YounisLY]

Libyans for the win

[@mustafaLY2631]

​@@YounisLY Well said

[@rawcopper604]

In polish we have something similar: we add prefixes to change the aspect, and often the meaning, of verbs. jechać- to go (by land transport)- so by car, horse or bike, but not foot, plane or boat przejechać- run over or drive by pojechać- to finish the action of going (by land transport) najechać- to invade zjechać- to go off something (by land transport) wjechać- to go on something/into somewhere (by land transport) przyjechać- to come (by land transport) There is a few more but they're harder to translate This is extremely common; with to kill, to hit, to beat, to pierce, to impale, to beat someone until dead, etc. all sharing one root verb (bić)

[@LUKA_911]

Same thing in Croatian 😊

[@labaluba]

We have it in Russian too

[@AmarEcd1233]

how​@@LUKA_911

[@someguy2744]

For Serbo-Croatian, bić means whip and it apparently comes from biti: Prebiti - beat up (biti is to fight via fisticuffs - biju se Ubiti - kill Nabiti - impale Pobiti - kill (multiple) Dobiti is "to get" but I don't think it is connected to the group of words above.

[@marslangdon9007]

bch

[@nadaahmed6236]

i am literally a native arab speaker and i am learning arabic through you 😭 you always say interesting stuff i've actually never heard of. (of course ik all the verbs u mentioned including the meanings but i just never noticed the suffixes and the different forms and so on)

[@nadamalkawi9889]

Hi we have the same name :)

[@nadaahmed6236]

@@nadamalkawi9889 woahh hiii

[@ladtm]

@@nadaahmed6236 تحب البطاطس؟

[@nsr-ints]

Great, now I'm adding an additional feature to my conlang.

[@Yu-Gi-Oh36508]

Why stop at 10?

[@nsr-ints]

@@Yu-Gi-Oh36508 it's not an esoteric conlang.

[@chrisfusion6945]

Its not conlanging without linguistic rabbit holes

[@user-zs4ry3eu6b]

As an Arabian That is the most exciting Arabic lesson I've ever had

[@gabbagabba542542]

Very interesting. The Bantu languages in South Africa that I know have a similar approach to verbs. For instance in isiXhosa, verbs generally end in “-a”, e.g. “thenga” (buy) and “thanda” (love). Some examples of how these verbs can be changed to form new verbs: The infix “-is- before the final a makes a verb causative, so: “thenga” = buy, “thengisa” = cause to buy, aka sell. Changing the final “-a” to a “-wa” makes a verb passive, so “thandwa” = “be loved”. Adding “-an-“ before the final “-a” makes a verb reflexive in a plural sense, so “thandana” = love each other. Another cool example comes from a different, but related langauge, Sesotho, in which verbs also end in “-a”. The infix “-isis-“ is an intensifier. Adding it to “utlwa” (hear) gives “utlwisisa” (hear intensely = understand). English verbs would have also had this property in earlier times, though such verb mutations are less intuitive to the mod rn English speaker. At some point, the meaning of the prefix “for-“ would probably have explained how “for-getting” means losing something from memory while the “be-“ in “become” would have also had a meaning. We still have this intuition for the prefix “re-“ as in “do again”.

[@yousefmajali8757]

Im arab but my worst grades are Arabic💀

[@child_of_eloheem8456]

Please I’m BEGGING you to explain Hebrew Binyanim like this, I’m sure it’s very similar. This made 10x more sense than any explanation I’ve heard.

[@tariq_al_fahim170]

Bin-Yamin in arabic means son of the right hand

[@alixx_legenddark_xx2819]

@@tariq_al_fahim170it’s kinda just “Benjamin” in a weird way

[@royspielberg6738]

​@@tariq_al_fahim170 Same in Hebrew. The word isn't Binyamin, it's Binyanim, which means "buildings"

[@tariq_al_fahim170]

@@royspielberg6738 oh there is also a similar word 'bina or bunyan' which translates to a structure

[@natxon]

i learned arabic at school but your vids are way way more fun and everything i learned starts to make sense

[@Marta1Buck]

As Indonesian who was educated in pesantren (boarding school), we learned these forms to learn translating Qur'an/Hadits. Each form has its name depending on what is added. For example mahmuz for additional hamzah, laffif if there's stacking or tasydid. I forgot most of them since the last time I speak Arabic fluently was 15 years back.

[@sandman_dreamers]

Lol I'm arabic and I found that interresting! Keep posting this content ✨️

[@Assaultor]

W vid tho this helped me understand a bit more 😊

[@Enforcedcraft]

Your videos are amazing but ofc I don't mean anything bad about it but man that "Izlam", "Muzlim" kinda fits weirdly on Arabic speaker. Ofc both are correct. Even I as European Muslim we say it in English also "Isslam" and "Musslim".

[@IcyCocktail]

It’s truly interesting to see how people learn your native language

[@coolxplayer12]

I wish someone taught me this back in school I think my Arabic teacher kind of forgot about this

[@7obsheh]

Love the use of 3 to represent the letter ع

[@QuincyYhwach.]

True .. as an arab i could say because of إشتقاق (ishtigag, the ability to form a verb) the arabic language should be theoretically at least, have an infinite words to use. You can simply create a whole new words that's never been heard or used b4 but the listeners would immediately understand it Such a fascinating language

[@DevtheViolinist]

Same thing with Sanskrit roots and English prefixes and suffixes. I think a lot of languages has this!

[@twistedblood234]

Great video

[@usibistro]

I am arabic and these videos always make me feel proud of my origins and my nationality. Keep it up :)

[@fatimahsaleem1028]

I really didn't know that my language is very impressive like this😂it is amazing

[@Normal_user_coniven]

Yes, I love Arabic Sarf, it makes Arabic vocabulary organized as Algebra.

[@AliAmmar-ik4eo]

Do you mind telling me how exactly?

[@dragonapop]

yeah fine, I've watched like 10 of your vids. I'll subscribe now

[@savannahs5439]

that was a great video. please talk about no. IX too 😂 edit: found it

[@mooseoncaffeine]

Im Syrian and cant keep track even though i use these daily.

[@Kindafeel]

معلومات قيمة، حقا لم ادرك اي شيء بالمقطع لأنه بالانقليزيه لكني اقدر حقا ما تقول عن لغتنا العربية الجميلة.

[@arielp7582]

Absolutely incredible video. As someone who's learning Arabic, it's hard to find good videos that teach verb forms since many people avoid teaching it since "it's too complicated 🤓." Well I don't think its complicated. I find it interesting.

[@therongjr]

I am late to the show, but this video earned you a "subscribe." P.S. Hindi does something similar with a "to do [X]" vs. a "to cause to do [X]."

[@tareefsoufi6541]

As a native speaker This is too complicated 😂

[@__-rt5tm]

Think of it as like modern warfare's weapon gunsmith system

[@cockerel6253]

As a native Arabic speaker, i didn't realize Arabic was this hard for English speakers

[@saranaila5905]

To be transported by someone is نُقِلَ or نُقِلت for male or female respectively, انتقل is talking about someone that moved.

[@malazkarar1171]

As an Arab the organized nature of verb derivatives has always fascinated me.

[@freddy9457]

arabic also has words with 4 root letters (like ba'thara , zalzala, etc.), which also have 2 forms, if im not mistaken

[@goldenaxolotl9718]

What is form 9, though?

[@IanRomErv]

These are verbs that are related to colors.

[@save_sudan_and_palestine]

To get a color. it's rare that's why.

[@SterryNightSky]

⁠@@IanRomErvlike what?

[@Abu_Hafs]

It's the form called افْعَلَّ يَفْعِلُّ افْعِلالًا As in احْمَرَّ يَحْمِرُّ احْمِرارًا Or something like that, There are other forms too, total of 13 for verbs with 3 letter root and 4 for those with 4 letters root

[@MCAbdo]

Brother may I ask where you learn Arabic from? It seems really good. I am an Arabic speaker but I'm asking for a friend who wants to learn Arabic. And if you're self-taught, then how exactly, and where can my friend start?

[@sultanmustfa7731]

I think that he is a nativ speaker cause he is from lebanon but Im not sure

[@alioshax7797]

Pretty sure he's Lebanese, and speaks english, french and arabic fluently or close.

[@Abu_Hafs]

There can actually be 13 different forms of verbs which have 3 letters as root And 4 forms for verbs having 4 letters as the root 10 are mentioned here as the are used more commonly These can be studied in the science called Sarf or morphology

[@nilzakindigo]

Arabic is an ancient language, it's very complex yet beautiful

[@executioner3226]

As arabic man I never new that 😂.

[@omarsayed3874]

There are more forms. A total of 14 for verbs that have a 3 letter root and about 3 forms for verbs of a 4-letter root. Not all words that have roots come from a 3 letter root, some come from 4.

[@shateq]

My personality is this arabiclanguage-fact channel right now

[@martontarnok]

Hungarian works the same way, you change the ending or add a suffix to add meaning (e.g. csinál - he does something, csináltat - he makes him to do something). This is why there are so many cases in Hungarian, as instead of using countless auxiliary verbs like in English, you just add suffixes.

[@Ayxan_Eyvaz]

The same thing is in turkish too: Yapıyor - he does something Yaptırıyor - he makes someone to make it

[@Kronecraft]

Hebrew has something similar! I love the Semitic languages 😊

[@SuperSerferNow]

I am a arabic speaker and i am learner a lot

[@Cation_bibliophile]

Fr

[@alixx_legenddark_xx2819]

علي الجارم بيت الثاني؛ أنت علمتني البيان فمالي كلما لُحتِ حار فيكِ بياني “You have taught me the information that I have Whenever I look at you all my information is lost in you” (Correct me if I made a mistake)

[@EdKolis]

Interesting! It's kind of like the thing in English or French or probably lots of other languages where you can change a word's part of speech by adding a suffix, like adding -ness to turn an adjective into a noun describing that adjective as a state of being.

[@OmnipotentPotato]

Except anything that's related to one single concept comes from the same triliteral (or sometimes quadriliteral root). As you saw in the English translations of the verbs, they were all unrelated. This applies to nouns by the way. As the root for studying and learning is d-r-s, the place to study is Madrasah. The teacher is Mudarris, something which is studied is a Dars, and after it has been studied it is Madroos. Since these templates are regular, you can predict the meaning of a word you haven't encountered before, or even make a word you haven't encountered before, so long as you know what the template and the root means, which you can't really say about English except in rare cases.

[@amininja]

Istaf'ala superiority

[@salahbelmahi3957]

An Arabic teacher in the making🎉! Keep it up! it's not that hard.

[@mt5276]

As an arab i can confirm our teachers doesn’t teach anything from this to us and idk why tbh

[@realhuman5688]

now I want to know about form 9

[@cellnahwl6711]

There are also for letter roots فعلل

[@Lil_shmeeg]

I love being an Arab

[@kabodra]

I didn't understand one thing. There is no 9th version of a verb in Arabic, or there is but for some reason he skipped it?

[@sekiro_19]

Arabic is so deep we are only speaking with it surface nowadays.

[@zivan6179]

Yub true unfortunately.....

[@Oak_II]

The same in Hebrew, although pretty sure Hebrew has less forms. אכל (akhál) - he ate אוכל (ókhel) - food אוכל (okhél) - I/he is eating etc...

[@zivan6179]

Well hebrew and arabic are from the same language family, both are Semitic languages, i believe hebrew also has a system to define vowels on consonants just like arabic, this is something only Semitic languages have

[@nomedmess551]

As an Arabic speaker and Arabic is my first language that is all real

[@adnzip8198]

NOBODY TOLD ME ANY OF THIS🗣🗣🗣

[@nurulafsar3195]

Dude pronounces ‘taslama’ perfectly but still says Izlam and Muzlim lol

[@1..1..1..1H]

How did he manage to fit all that information in a 2m video?

[@alexander-yf3bp]

Very similair to hebrew in that matter.A little easier tho

[@monster_cool1769]

I'm native arab and wasn't found of sarf,, nahw ,i3rab from a very young age, i just devoured books, watched cartoons ,wrote, spoke, memorised poems and this is how i learned my language..and how learning other languages, i hate rules and details. Makes my head spin and never stick with me.

[@scp049leplaguedocter3]

same but im not an native arab

[@_fedmar_]

I was fully expecting 3allama to mean "to mansplain".

[@Prince-nb2dd]

I am an native Arabic speaker and I got a headache.

[@user-qq3ts4pv8d]

جيد

[@knidsens1-dw4vs]

you forgot about the verbs with 4 letters root

[@skyofquacks]

I'm arabic myself, and I have no idea these forms exist. I guess I just, speak it?

[@waffluer3961]

whats the ninth one i need to know now

[@zivan6179]

it's the only used for colours i believe, let's take red for example: ihmarra: to become red Wait no it can be used for some other verbs too well let's just say its complicated*

[@calebboyd-wz4ol]

What's with the three in words?

[@yassineanassine7905]

It's The ع sound

[@ohadish]

this is very similar to hebrew!

[@SomeOne-px4up]

yeah cuz they both semitic languages + modern Hebrew is (liturgical Hebrew + other semitic roots for more recent concepts)

[@ohadish]

yyes i know, i speak hebrew nativley@@SomeOne-px4up

[@eneaganh6319]

Using a roman numeral instead of an Arabic one in the title is very ironic lol

[@scribbles3721]

which countries Arabic do you study ?

[@vincentschult1725]

Probably Modern Standard Arabic

[@scribbles3721]

@@vincentschult1725 oh okay, does that belong to a country or just an average (?) of all the Arabic dialects

[@shadhjallbo]

⁠@@scribbles3721Modern Standard Arabic is a standardized Arabic that is taught in schools and used in TV, papers, news etc. It was standardized in the 19th century and comes from Quranic Arabic

[@scribbles3721]

@@shadhjallbo oh okay thank you 🙏

[@aamirrt]

He is Lebanese I think

[@Phosphorus-zr7kl]

Is there something similar in modern Hebrew?

[@SomeOne-px4up]

name's not funny mate

[@Phosphorus-zr7kl]

@@SomeOne-px4up What? Are you talking about my nickname?

[@SomeOne-px4up]

@@Phosphorus-zr7kl yeah the phosphorus stuff, and talking bout modern hebrew, probably not just a coincidence

[@Phosphorus-zr7kl]

@@SomeOne-px4up what the actual fuck? You were forbidden to learn languages and chemistry in school? Or just history?

[@LeeTheGoat]

To ignore the dumb comment and answer the question - yes Hebrew has a similar system of 7 verb forms: 6 that are active-passive pairs and a reflexive form

[@alix6xgorg839]

All fun and giggles, until you go to names derived from verbs and see the مفعيل/مسكين monstrosity.

[@idontwantanamethx]

What's wrong with form 9?

[@omarjassar4650]

علم he knew علم he taught علم flag علم knowledge

[@glitchys-7386]

What exactly is form 9?

[@sushipop1276]

Form 9 has to do with verbs and colors (I.E. To Whiten, to blacken) As you can imagine, that doesn't really come up in everyday conversation, so it's not really all that useful, so much so that schools that teach arabic will usually just skip over it.

[@SolathPrime]

​@@sushipop1276actually that does like in to whiten your father face meaning to: (Honor, respect, please, pleasure, save from shame) your father

[@country_hamster_236]

​@@sushipop1276 Is the reason many Arabic teachers gloss over it and skip it? Because "to whiten" and "to blacken" can have some racial epithets depending on what you mean by it...

[@sadafw7635]

Can I blow your mind? دَرَسَ can also mean the remans of a building

[@sadafw7635]

For example: دَرَسَ القصر

[@sadafw7635]

The mansion has gone but you can see the remans of it

[@MCAbdo]

I bet the 9th one was the passive voice form lmao Also the 'ist' can also mean to ask someone to do something. For example (kataba كتب) means to write, (istaktaba استكتب) means to get someone to write for you

[@ss4529]

you made a mistake on number7, -naqala = transported. used when talikng about other than humen -naql with "sokun" at the end means to be transported. -intaqala means transported used when talking about humen only. examples:- -نقلَ خالد الحقيبة، المسافر نقلَ اغراضه. -نقلْ العلم، نقلْ الصناعة والقوة، نقلْ الخبرة للموظف الجديد. -انتقلَ احمد الى رحمة الله، انتقلَ علي الى جدة.

[@Alanalan12297]

Form 8, u made a mistake نقل is indeen (he transported), but انتقل is not "he has been transported," likeu said, it heans he moved out to another city or place! Or if it is about something, then it means spread, like a disease as an example! And to all the people who say i didn't know this as a native speaker. Of course u did! How else do u even talk?? He is just making u awary of something u already knew.

[@aztheking6280]

You number the forms 😅 that is so wierd

[@Jarvis_923]

He’s not the one who numbered them. They were already numbered by linguists.

[@zidanidane]

1:20 i swear this is such a huge moment for me that is the first goddamn time i heard someone pronounce a verb in the "xaxaxa" form and heard and understood it as "to verb" instead of "he verbed" what hte fuck like the dismissive ass way you specifically said the "la" at the end of "tarasala" that made it seem like youre talking so robotically and stripped so much meaning away from the word goddamn

[@zaidkiwan5168]

1:20 it's a bit wrong تراسل من وزن تفاعل ومعناه المشاركة و التفاعل

[@cheesycheese60]

Its تراسُل he kinda messed up but its right

[@mbarakjabry7634]

What's the form 9?

[@country_hamster_236]

Apparently, it has to do with colors, like "to blacken" and "to whiten". You can probably imagine why people don't really talk about it.

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

Bruh.

[@fsponj]

Cool video but not all verbs have a 3-letter root. There're also 4-letter, 5-letter, & 6-letter roots

[@save_sudan_and_palestine]

There're only 3-letter and 4-letter root verbs. 5-letter and 6-letter are just with the modifications as in the video. for example: استفهم is a 6-letter verb but not all letters are root letters only (ف، هـ، م) are. whereas verbs like زلزل are the 4 letters are root. and in these kind of verbs are made by only two letters in reality. but they are repeated twice.

[@Abu_Hafs]

There can actually be 13 different forms of verbs which have 3 letters as root And 4 forms for verbs having 4 letters as the root 10 are mentioned here as the are used more commonly There are no letters with more than 4 letter roots

[@MohamadNoadsagain]

Bro i am native arabic speaker and i have to tell you that this is nothing you stell have lots of things tell you speak and I aprecheate that you trying to learn our language

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

Why don’t we talk about 9? Pls 🥺

[@iibrahimxd476]

It is exclusive to verbs about colors so you can't apply it to any random root, for example the color yellow is أصفر "asfar" The verb اصفرّ "isfarra" means "to become yellow"

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@iibrahimxd476 interesting. Very fascinating though

[@SomeOne-px4up]

@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072we don't talk about it cuz it's sometimes used in a racist manner

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@SomeOne-px4up ☹️

[@SomeOne-px4up]

@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 hey, its not my fault, you wanted to know 😤

[@Yazan_Majdalawi]

Kinda curious why you pronounce almost everything correctly, but then you go "Izlam, or Muzlim"

[@BIazy]

he's probably used to hearing it like that from US news lol

[@ahmedfathelrahman5712]

​@@BIazy why do they say "izlam" anyway? I'm pretty sure they're capable of pronouning the S correctly.

[@BIazy]

@@ahmedfathelrahman5712 idk

[@bluerinako]

Because that is how those words are pronounced in English. He is speaking English. Not hard to understand.

[@Mullkaw]

@@ahmedfathelrahman5712 maybe it's a phonotactic thing? ive heard some people say "tezla" (for tesla) in english so perhaps that is related

[@Neyobe]

WHATS 9 CAN SOMEONE EXPLAINNNNN

[@iibrahimxd476]

It is exclusive to verbs about colors so you can't apply it to any random root, for example the color yellow is أصفر "asfar" The verb اصفرّ "isfarra" means "to become yellow"

[@user-uq3uw6kn9m]

يا سبك

[@Herbalist-athari]

Imagine the prophet peace be upon him who was illiterate coming up with this scripture & grammer

[@drakep271]

Now I really want to know about form 9 🫠 Edit: I found his video on it, it's called "The Arabic Form they Don't Teach"