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I am wanting to learn MSA and colloquial Egyptian arabic - speaking, reading and writing. I do mostly self study and need someone with a good understanding of arabic grammar to help me. I am also a CELTA certified English as a Second Language teacher (from University of Cambridge England). I did some volunteer English teaching in Egypt. I also worked for decades in the Information Technology sector in Canada. I have also visited several arabic speaking countries. I spent over 30 years visiting Egypt and recently spent 4 years living there.
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    What is the root for the verb "To Want to" in MSA Arabic? e.g. uriid يُريد

     I want to look up the root word in the Hans Weir dictionary, plus I want to conjugate the verb in the Perfect and Imperfect tenses for all pronouns.

    Can anyone locate it in the Barron's 501 Arabic verbs book? If yes, what page #?



    January 26, 2016
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    Arabic: What is the 3 letter root (i.e. stem) for the verb ' to retire' (he retired- taqaa'da) I know how to do all of the verb conjugations (he retired, I retired, I will retire, etc.). But I want to look the related words up in an old version of the Hans Wehr Arabic-English dictionary. And I know arabic words are organized differently in an arabic dictionary than in an English dictionary. An English dictionary lists words in A-Z sequence, while an arabic dictionary organizes words by their 3 letter root consonants. (Some words have a 2, 4 or 5 letter consonant). I cannot find an entry to describe "to retire" (meaning to permanently stop working). I have tried using the roots TAA QAAF DAAL and QAAF Hamza Daal and haven't found anything. I am doing something wrong. Note I am successful in using an arabic dictionary to find other words, but am not having luck with this one word.
    November 22, 2015
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