Elementary Arabic Morphology 1

The Make Up of Words and The Subject of Morphology

  1. What are words made up of?

  2. What does morphology teach us?

  3. Words are made up of:

• One letter, for example the preposition in بِحَمدِ الله (with the praise of Allah)

• More than one letter (up to seven letters). For example: استِخبَار (inquiry)

  1. Morphology teaches us the forms of single words and their different states before being joined together with other words.