How to Learn Arabic Language

Here is an Arabic adjectives list to help you know some of the very common and most used adjectives in Arabic. This is for beginners so I won't bother you with plural forms because they change with the position of the word.
The adjectives are in masculine form, for the feminine form of most of them you will just add "ah" ـة
at the end for example:
Tall (in hight) = طويل (Masculin). The feminine form is طويلة.

Here we go:

Short قصير
Long طويل
Beautiful جميل
Sad حزين
Happy سعيد
Angry غاضب
Silent صامت
Quite هاديء
worried قلق
Tense متوتر
Brave شجاع
Big كبير
Small صغير
Shy خجول
Generous كريم
Fat سمين
Thin نجيف
New جديد
Old قديم
Expensive غال
Cheap رخيص
Comfortable مريح
Dark مظلم
Bright مضيء
Hot ساخن
Cold بارد
Delicious لذيذ
Masculine مذكر
Feminine مؤنث
Alive حي
Dead ميت
Sick مريض
Safe آمن
Different مختلف
Young شاب
Boring ممل
Married متزوج
Favorite مفضل
Serious جاد
Polite مهذب
Funny مضحك
Soft طري
Hard جامد
Sharp حاد
Heavy ثقيل
Light خفيف
Deep عميق
Lazy كسول
Active نشيط
Wide واسع
Narrow ضيق
Important هام
Trivial تافه
Respectful محترم
Clean نظيف
Dirty قذئ
Perfect مثالي
Easy صعل
Difficult صعب
Moderate متوسط
Stupid غبي
Smart ذكي
Arrogant مغرور
Wise حكيم
Proud فخور
Humble متواضع
Loud صاخب
Fast سريع
Slow بطيء
Poor فقير
Rich غني
Honest صادق
Much كثير
Little قليل

This is just a short list, if you have more in mind or wish to request more, feel free to ask in the comments section. I hope this list of Arabic adjectives was helpful.

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شكرا باللغة العربية
So, how do you say thank you in Arabic? This is one of the important phrases you need to know and the good thing is it is very easy and similar in many Arab countries.

"Shukran" شكرا means thank you in Arabic. "Shukran gazilan" شكرا جزيلا means thank you very much or many thanks. It is the same in Egyptian Arabic and standard Arabic as well as many other dialects too.

More examples and variations:
"Shukran lak" شكرا لك =
"Shokran le Ahmed" شكرا لأحمد = Thanks to Ahmed.
"Ored an Ashkor Ahmed" أريد أن أشكر أحمد
"Oqadem shokry le Ahmed" أقدم شكري لأحمد
"Khales ashokr le James" خالص الشكر لجيمس

To thank God we use another word in Arabic which is الحمد لله "alhamdolellah".

Another way to say thank you is like this: "Thank you for what you did" : Ashkoroka a'ala ma faalt أشكرك على ما فعلت
If you are wondering how to say (No, Thanks) it is "La, shokran" لا شكرا

Variations of the word:
In some gulf countries you can also use "Mashkour" which have the same meaning.
In Egypt you can also say: "Motshaker", meaning "I'm thankful". Also "alf shokr" ألف شكر means "a thousand thanks".
In Syria you can also use : "mamnoun" but shukran is also more common.
Muslims commonly use "Jazak allah khairan" جزاك الله خيرا  which is like 'God bless you' (it literally means may God reward you).

By Alao http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainsong/4379185764/, via flickr.

Arabs often associate a gesture with "Shukran" to stress the "thank you" idea or to add respect to it such as touching the chest or touching the head or prolonged handshaking.

The answer to thank you in Arabic is العفو "alafw". Also, you can use: لا شكر على واجب "La shokr ala wajeb" which means don't mention it or literally "don't thank me for my duty" or in Egyptian dialect إنت تؤمر "enta to'omor" which is like at your service.

Here is a video I found on youtube to demonstrate the pronunciation of thank you in Arabic:

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Photo by Alexandre Van de Sande.[GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons.

Hello everyone :) أهلا وسهلا

This is a quick lesson about the colors  in Arabic. I'll try to make as simple as I can so you can learn the basic colors. There can be some different forms of plural but for the sake of simplicity, you can use the feminine form (المؤنث) with plural. Note that this is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) also know as formal Arabic or Fus-ha الفصحى.

Color= لون Laon
colors= ألوان Alwan



Examples:

This is a black car.     هذه سيارة سوادء
The apple is red.       التفاحة حمراء
The shirt is white.          القميص أبيض
Did you see the yellow card?     هل شاهدت الكرت الأصفر؟

I hope this was useful for you. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post them in the comments section below.

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