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The definite article ''al'' is invariable, as in Old Hijazi Arabic. | The definite article ''al'' is invariable, as in Old Hijazi Arabic. | ||
*'' | *''chaffy'' = coffee | ||
*''al | *''al-chaffy'' = the coffee | ||
Animate plural nouns usually end in -i. There are many broken plurals | |||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
Adjectives do not inflect. | |||
===Verbs and auxiliaries=== | ===Verbs and auxiliaries=== | ||
A-Arabic lost productive triconsonantal morphology and thus inflected verbs. The combination of auxiliaries and prepositions are used to mark tense, as in Colloquial Welsh. | A-Arabic lost productive triconsonantal morphology and thus inflected verbs. The combination of auxiliaries and prepositions are used to mark tense, as in Colloquial Welsh. | ||