ARABIC LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 1

• Ability to read and vocalize texts in Standard Arabic;
• Ability to recognize and apply the basic grammar rules of Standard Arabic;
• Knowledge of the main Morphological aspects of Standard Arabic;
• Knowledge of the main Syntactic structures of Standard Arabic;
• Ability to translate sentences and texts from Arabic to Italian and from Italian to Arabic;
• Knowledge of the main elements of the history of Arabic language.

Lectures.

• Phonology and orthography;
• Rules for writing of hamza;
• Root and form;
• Parts of speech: ism, fi‘l, harf;
• The name;
• Triptote and diptote declination;
• Ab and akh;
• Article and tanwin;
• Solar and lunar letters;
• Main prepositions and adverbs;
• Gender and number;
• Formation of feminine;
• Formation of dual;
• Formation of regular feminine and masculine plural;
• Broken plurals;
• Adjectives and concordance rules;
• Personal isolated and pronoun suffixes;
• Idafa;
• The nominal sentence;
• Interrogative sentence;
• Ways of translating the verb ‘to have’;
• Demonstrative adjectives/pronouns;
• The verb;
• The verbal sentence;
• Classification of Arabic verbs;
• Conjugation of the madi of triliteral regular verbs;
• Conjugation and use of mudari‘ (marfu‘, mansub, majzum);
• Ways of expressing future tense.
• Imperative;
• Negations;
• The verbs kana and laysa;
• Participles and masdars;
• Derived verb forms (II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X) of regular triliteral verbs and paradigms;
• Function of alladhi and allati as a subject;
• Indefinite adjectives/pronouns;
• Cardinal and ordinal numbers from 1 to 10.

Lexicon

Greetings; house; family; daily life; food; work; weather; city/hometown.

Manuals and grammars

- Luc-Willy Deheuvels (ed. italiana a cura di A. Ghersetti), Grammatica araba. Manuale di arabo moderno, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2010, vol. 1 (pp. 13-140).

- G. Mion, La lingua araba, Carocci, Roma, 2007 (144 pp.).

Suggested textbooks:

- L. Veccia Vaglieri, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba - vol. 1 (271 pp.), Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, Roma (II edizione).

- M. Ruocco, A. de Benedettis, Introduzione alla scrittura araba, Hoepli, Milano, 2019 (160 pp.).

Dictionaries:

- Traini R. (a cura di), Vocabolario Arabo-Italiano, Roma, Istituto per l’Oriente;

- E. Baldissera, Dizionario compatto Italiano-Arabo, Arabo-Italiano, Zanichelli.

During the classes, additional material will be provided and it will be available on Studium.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.