COLLOQUIAL Arabic of Egypt RUSSELL McGUIRK ROUTLEDGE 9 9The Colloquial Series * Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) * Colloquial Arabie of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia * Colloquial Chinese Colloquial Czech Colloquial Dutch * Colloquial English Colloquial French Colloquial German Colloquial Greek Colloquial Hungarian Colloquia! Italian Colloquial Japanese Colloquial Persian Colloquial Polish Colloquial Portuguese Colloquial Romanian Colloquial Russian Colloquial Serbo-Croat Colloquial Spanish Colloquial Turkish Accompanying cassette available Colloquial Arabic of Egypt Russell H. McGuirk Routledge & Kegan Paul London, Boston and HenleyFirst published in 1986 by Routledge & Kegan Paul ple 14 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7PH, England 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA and Broadway House, Newtown Road, Henley on Thames, Oxon RG9 TEN, England Phototypeset in Linotron Times 9 on 11 pt by Input Typesetting Ltd, London and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wyman Reading, Berks © Russell H. McGuirk 1986 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data McGuirk, Russell H., 1946 Colloguial Arabic of Exypt ‘(Colloquial series) Bibliography: p. 1. Arabic language—Dialects—Egypt—Grammar, 1. Title, PIOT™I.MSS 1985 492°.770952 247 Unitivh Library Cataloguing in Publication Data also asailable ISIN 0-7100-9936-3 (pb) 0-7102-0581-3 (cass) CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PRONUNCIATION THE ARABIC ALPHABET ROOT LETTERS AND GRAMMATICAL PATTERNS ABBREVIATIONS LESSON ONE LESSON TWO LESSON THREE, LESSON FOUR LESSON FIVE LESSON SIX LESSON SEVEN The definite article; Nouns and gender, Plurals; Subject pronouns; Simple sentences. Adjectives Construct phrases; Pronominal suffices; “To Demonstratives Numbers; Telling time; Months; Days of the week; Seasons Interrogative words; Active parti- ciples; Adverbial phrases with ‘bi-? Comparative and superlative adjec- lives; Colous Perfect tense (simple verbs); Verbal negatives; Active participles (simple verbs); Passive participles (simple verbs) 10 u 2 18 24 31 40 4 a7