This document provides an overview of parts of speech and grammatical concepts in Arabic. It discusses:
- The three main parts of speech in Arabic: noun (ism), verb (fi'l), and particle (harf).
- Arabic nouns have different endings (vowel signs on the last letter) to indicate their grammatical function in a sentence as the subject (nominative case), object (accusative case), or possessor (genitive case).
- Vowel signs in Arabic and their representation of short vowels - fatah for a, kasrah for i, dammah for u, and sukun to indicate absence of a vowel.
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