Bayyinah Access 2: Detailed Pre-Requisites
Welcome to Access 2: Advanced Grammar! In this course you will continue to build on your
knowledge of Arabic Grammar and Sarf to dive deeper into the nuances of Quranic Arabic.
Before beginning this course, please review the guide below. Students should be comfortable and
fluent with the topics in the guide below in order to benefit fully from the Access 2 Course.
Topic
Three kinds of words in
Student should be able to:
Define and recognize each kind of word
Arabic: ‫اسم فعل حرف‬
4 properties of an ‫اسم‬:
Status, Number, Gender
Type
Pronouns
Fragments
Be able to tell the 4 properties of any ‫اسم‬. Such as:
ً , ‫طاوالت‬
‫م ى‬, ‫داران‬,
‫م ْس ِل ًما‬, ‫م ْس ِل ُمو‬, ‫يوسف‬, ‫وس‬
‫أقالم‬, ‫ناسا‬
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Recognize independent and attached pronouns. Be able to
translate any given pronoun and tell its status.
Recognize and grammatically label the following fragments:
‫ إضافة‬/
‫ جار و مجرور‬/
‫ حرف نصب‬/ ‫ موصوف صفة‬/
‫اسم إشارة‬
‫مجةل امسية‬
Recognize and label the three parts of the ‫مجةل امسية‬:
‫ مبتدأ خرب متعلق بالخرب‬and provide a basic translate for
Past Tense ‫الفعل الماضي‬
simple sentences.
Recite the past tense chart from memory and be able to
identify the inside doer of any given past tense fil.
‫مجةل فعلية‬
Label the parts of the ‫مجةل فعلية‬:
‫فعل فاعل مفعول متعلق بالفعل‬.
Recognize and define the different kinds of mafools.
Know the difference between a ‫ مجةل فعلية‬and a ‫مجةل امسية‬.
Normal Present Tense
‫الفعل المضارع المرفوع‬
Light Present Tense
‫الفعل المضارع المنصوب‬
Be able to label an embedded sentence that contains both
kinds of sentences.
Recite the present tense chart from memory and be able to
identify the inside doer of any given present tense fil.
Be able to recite, translate, and label the harfs that make the
present tense light (mansoob). Be able to recognize identify
the inside pronoun of a light (mansoob) present tense fil
Lightest Present Tense
‫الفعل المضارع المجزوم‬
Be able to recite, translate, and label the harfs that make the
present tense lightest (majzoom). Be able to recognize
identify the inside pronoun of a lightest (majzoom) present
tense fil
Commanding and
Forbidding
Be able to recognize a ‫ فعل أمر‬and ‫ فعل هني‬and grammatically
‫فعل أمر و فعل هني‬
label and translate them.
Conditional Statements
‫مجةل شرطية‬
Be able to recognize a conditional statement, translate and
grammatically label the following:
‫الفعل المبني للمجهول‬
Understand what it means for a ‫ فعل‬to be passive.
Passives
Sentences
Be able to recognize, translate and grammatically analyze
both past tense and present tense passives.
Recall the rules of Kana (considered a JI, the ism of Kana is in
the raf status, and the khabr is nasb) and grammatically label
these sentences.
‫ – األمساء الموصوةل‬Ism
Be able to recognize and translate ‫األمساء الموصوةل‬
Mowsool
Be able to determine the status of the ‫ اسم موصول‬in a
‫ – كان و أخواهتا‬Kana
‫ فعل هني و جزاء‬/ ‫فعل أمر‬
‫شرط و جواب الرشط‬
sentence.
Be able to identify the ‫( صةل الموصول‬silah)
Sarf
Understand the sarf template.
Sarf – ‫ مزيد فيه‬Mazeed Feeh
Be able to recite Forms II- X (excluding form IX) from
memory.
Be able to recognize when a word is from Family 1 and what
kind of word it is.
For any given word, be able to look up the meaning in Hans
Wher, Lane’s Lexicon, or Brill.
For any given word, be able to tell the root letters, kind of
word, sarf form/family and the meaning
Be able to read and understand basic irab terminology for the
topics above. (See the Access 2 Practice Assessment for an
example)
Sarf – ‫ مجرد‬Mujarrad
Sarf – Using Dictionaries
Sarf
Irab Terminology