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Urdu Grammar

Study Urdu sentence structure, from nouns and pronouns to verb agreement and syntax. Each lesson pairs English explanations with Urdu examples and practice.

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Syllabus

Part 1

Nouns and noun phrases

Foundations

  1. Words and Fundamental Parts of Speech
  2. Definite Nouns, Proper Nouns, and Cultural Titles

Pronouns

  1. Personal Pronouns, Politeness Registers, and the Present Copula
  2. Pronoun Cases, Declensions, and the Complete Conjugation Table
  3. The Reflexive Possessive Pronoun: اپنا (Apnā)
  4. Demonstratives, Relatives, and Interrogatives

Noun Classification

  1. Common Nouns and Abstract Nouns
  2. Nouns of Place and Time (اسم ظرف — Ism-e-Ẓarf)
  3. Instrumental Nouns and Collective Nouns
  4. Adjectives and Agreement Rules (صفت و موصوف)

Gender, Number, Case, and Postpositions

  1. Gender of Animate Nouns (جانداروں کی تذکیر و تانیث)
  2. Gender of Inanimate Nouns (بے جان چیزوں کی تذکیر و تانیث)
  3. Grammatical Number and Plural Formation (تعداد: واحد اور جمع)
  4. Grammatical Cases and Noun Inflections (حالت: اعراب و تقسیم)
  5. Postpositions & Case Markers (Huroof-e-Rabt — حروفِ ربط)

Noun Derivation and Advanced Forms

  1. Compound Postpositions and the Persian Izafat Construction
  2. Agent Nouns, Suffixes, and Time Expressions
  3. Diminutive Nouns and Affectionate Patterns (اسم تصغیر)

Part 2

Verbs and sentence structure

Verbs and Causatives

  1. Verb Foundations: Roots, Stems, and Verb Classes
  2. Causative Verbs (Af'aal-e-Muta'addi)

Past Tenses

  1. The Past Tense System & Simple Past (Maazi Mutlaq)
  2. The Ergative Case & The نے (Ne) Postposition System
  3. Present Perfect Tense (Maazi Qareeb — ماضی قریب)
  4. Past Perfect / Remote Past (Maazi Ba'eed — ماضی بعید)
  5. Past Continuous & Habitual Past (Maazi Naatamaam — ماضی ناتمام)
  6. Presumptive Past, Passive Participles, and Conditional Past

Present and Future Tenses

  1. Simple Present Tense (Haal Mutlaq) & Practical Dialogue
  2. Present Continuous Tense (Haal Naatamaam — حال ناتمام)
  3. Presumptive Present Tense (Haal Ihtimaali — حال احتمالی)
  4. The Future Tense (Fe'l Mustaqbil — فعل مستقبل)

Moods, Commands, and Negation

  1. The Subjunctive Mood / Aorist (Fe'l Muzaari' — فعل مضارع)
  2. The Imperative Mood & Politeness Etiquette (Fe'l Amr — فعل امر)
  3. Negative Imperatives & Prohibitive Verbs (Fe'l Nahi — فعل نہی)

Advanced Verb Aspects and Passive

  1. Habitual Aspect & Frequentative Verbs (Fe'l Aadat — فعل عادت)
  2. The Passive Voice & Grand Verb Classification (Fe'l Majhool — فعل مجہول)
  3. Compound Verbs, Vector Auxiliaries & Master Verb Paradigm

Participles and Adverbs

  1. Adverbs in Urdu (Muta'alliq-e-Fe'l — متعلق فعل)
  2. The Conjunctive Participle (Haaliya Ma'toofa — حالیہ معطوفہ)
  3. Imperfect, Iterative, and Perfect Participles

Sentence Structure and Usage

  1. Conjunctions in Urdu (Huroof-e-Atf — حروفِ عطف)
  2. Explanatory Particle, Emphatics, and Interjections
  3. Echo Words & Reduplicative Jingles (Muhmal — مہمل)
  4. Grammatical Parsing & Sentence Analysis (Tarkeeb-e-Nahwi — ترکیبِ نحوی)
  5. Rhetoric, Classical Poetic Metrics, and Idioms