... transformation; integration. (See the author’s Course in Colloquial Arabic, Beirut, 1974, pp. 12–14)Of these, transformation is particularly valuable for Arabic; agiven sentence can be changed for ... in the form ofconjugated verbs in Arabic (see Lesson two for to have). In factthere is no need normally to say is/are.2 The negative is formed by using one word (mush)systematically for nouns, ... form for dual (two of anything) formed byadding -ayn (as in Bahrain, Alamain etc,):The two boys are here—’il-waiadayn hawnThe two girls are here—’il-bintayn hawn2 The most common plural formula...