Gerald Drißner
A short Quranic verse can contain a surprising amount of grammar. In this first episode Sentence Autopsy, we trace a missing نون, attached pronouns, shifting sentence structures, and the meaning they help uncover The post Sentence Autopsy: What the Grammar of Surah 2:95 Reveals first appeared on...
Gerald Drißner
Some Arabic words begin as tiny actions and end up as institutions. A scoop becomes a room (غُرْفَةٌ), a turn becomes a state (دَوْلَةٌ), a guest becomes a fixed social role (نَزِيلٌ). The clue is often hiding in the plural The post Lexicalization in Arabic: The Secret Life of Broken Plurals first appeared...
Gerald Drißner
In the final Media Arabic Booster, we look at a UAE social media ban for children and an Asas Media article on Israel, Somaliland, and the Red Sea The post Kids, Screens & Somaliland | Media Arabic Booster 06/26 – Last Episode first appeared on Arabic for Nerds and is written by Gerald...