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Gulf Arabic
Pronunciation

...P.1.1 Arabic Sounds

Gulf Arabic
Vocabulary

...V.2.1 Greetings
...V.2.2 Short Descriptive Phrases

...V.3.1 At the Airport
...V.3.2 Asking for Directions
...V.3.3 Expressions of Location
...V.3.4 Professions
...V.3.5 Nationalities

...V.4.1 How Much Does it Cost?
...V.4.2 At the Market
...V.4.3 The Days of the Week
...V.4.4 The Months
...V.4.5 The Colours

Gulf Arabic
Grammar

...G.2.1. Definite Article
...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns
...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns
...G.2.4. Possessives with maal-
...G.2.5 Commands and Requests
...G.2.6 Broken Plural
...G.2.7 Plural -aat
...G.2.8 Plural -iin
...G.2.9 Plural -iyya

...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat
...G.3.2 The Dual Form
...G.3.3 Adjectives
...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes
...G.3.5 Prepositions
...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind-
...G.3.7 Past Tense I

...G.4.1 More on Adjectives
...G.4.2 Comparison Forms
...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals
...G.4.4 Telling the Time
...G.4.5 Question Words
...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns)
...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Grammar - Plural-forming suffix "-iin"

learn arabic phrases Plurals which do not have a broken plural and signify male humans (usually members of a profession, occupation or nationality), add –iin.

mudarris (male teacher) -> mudarrisiin
mu7assin (barber) -> mu7assiniin

ba7rayni (male Bahraini) -> ba7rayniyyiin
ingiliizi (Englishman) -> ingiliziiyiin

Note that that when the singular ends in –i an –yy- is added before the plural siffix –iin.