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🇸🇦 Arabic
العربيةArabic

Start here: build sentences (word order + core patterns)

Learn the default word order and memorize a handful of high‑frequency sentence patterns.

Default word order

Modern Standard Arabic often allows VSO and SVO; many learners start with SVO patterns.

  • Start with short sentences and keep the pattern consistent.
  • Copy a native pattern, then swap one word at a time.

Core sentences to memorize

These are extremely reusable. Read them aloud, then change one word (water → coffee, bathroom → station…).

أنا هنا.
ana huna
I am here.
أريد ماء.
urid ma'
I want water.
لا أفهم.
la afham
I don't understand.
هل تتكلم الإنجليزية؟
hal tatakallam al-ingliziyya
Do you speak English?
أين الحمام؟
ayna al-hammam
Where is the bathroom?
هذا صديقي.
hatha sadiqi
This is my friend.

Drills

Build the sentence
urid ma'
I want water.
Your sentence
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Build the sentence
ayna al-hammam
Where is the bathroom?
Your sentence
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Mini‑quiz

Mini-quiz
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