There are 28 consonant and three vo

There are 28 consonant and three vowels –a-i-u- which can be short or long. Some of teh sounds are unique to arabic and difficult for foreigners to pronounce exactly, though you should be able to make yourself understood. The normal word order of a sentence is verb/subject/object. The function of a word in sentence can also be distinguished by case-endings (marks above the last letter of a word) but these are usually found only in the qur’an or school textbooks. Feminine nouns add the suffix act form the plural but masculine nouns generally have a “broken” plural which involves changing vowels in the middle of the word: kitaab (book), kutub (books)
Arabic has very few singular verbs and does not use “is” or “are” for all the present tense: “the king good” means “the king is good”. (arabic proverbs. Joseph hanki parperback, a998 (from amazon. USA)