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How good is your Arabic? A quiz

Vocabulary is one of the indicators of how well you know a language. In this test, you will be asked ten questions, randomly selected from a database containing the 6000 most common words in Arabic. Are you ready?
byGerald DriรŸner
July 20, 2023
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Arabic is such a difficult language, especially at the beginning, because you have to learn almost every word from scratch. You can almost never link to words you know from your native language (unless it’s , in which case Arabic is easy).

Language LevelNumber of Base Words Needed
A1500
A21000
B12000
B24000
C18000
C216000
Source:  Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning

So, it takes a few years to acquire the necessary vocabulary.

In this quiz, you can test how confident you are in Arabic. The 20 words are randomly selected – from a of the 6000 most common words.

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How much Arabic do you have under your belt?

There are 6,000 words in the database. 20 Arabic words are randomly chosen. Do you know them?

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1. reducing, shrinking, cutting back

2 / 10

2. heat, passion (of conflict)

3 / 10

3. Somali

4 / 10

4. trap, snare

5 / 10

5. anthem, hymn, song

6 / 10

6. myth, fable; tale, legend

7 / 10

7. spending, expenditure; exertion, effort; donating

8 / 10

8. sbโ€™s front door, sbโ€™s doorsteps

9 / 10

9. to contain, include ุนู„ู‰ sth

10 / 10

10. to modify, alter sth; to amend, rectify (law); to adjust, correct sth

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Gerald DriรŸner (Drissner) has lived in Arab and Islamic countries for more than a decade. He is the founder of Arabic for Nerds.
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Hikaru
Hikaru
1 year ago

How do you guys study Arabic words? Are there useful books for studying Arabic vocabulary?

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Helen
Helen
1 year ago
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Essential Arabic Vocabulary by Mourad Diouri of the University of Edinburgh is a great book to build vocabulary.

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Amin
Amin
1 year ago

Can we have a link to the database ?

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