You met كُلٌّ (every/all) and بَعْضٌ (some) briefly back in Chapter Fourteen's vocabulary. Now that you have verbs, you can finally use them the way they're used constantly in real speech: كُلَّ يَوْمٍ (“every day”) attached to an action, using the accusative of time — an adverbial accusative with no preposition at all.
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BY THE END OF THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Use كُلٌّ and بَعْضٌ as the first word of an iḍāfah with an action verb
Apply the accusative of time: كُلَّ يَوْمٍ, ‘every day,’ with no preposition
Tell the difference between كُلُّ يَوْمٍ (subject) and كُلَّ يَوْمٍ (adverb)
Read a repeated Qur'ānic phrase about Allah's power over ‘all things’
TEACHER NOTES
Pacing: 40–50 min
Prerequisite check: Kull wa ba'd's earlier partial introduction (Chapter Six) if covered.
Watch out for: This is the Phase 3 checkpoint — don't skip the five-sentence recycling round even if short on time.
01 — LISTEN & REPEAT
حِوَارٌDialogue
Yūsuf and Maryam talk about their daily habits. Listen twice, then read aloud.
YŪSUF
هَلْ تَقْرَئِينَ الْقُرْآنَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ؟
hal taqra’īna-l-qur’āna kulla yawm?
Do you read the Qur'ān every day?
MARYAM
نَعَمْ، كُلَّ يَوْمٍ بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ.
na‘am, kulla yawmin ba‘da ṣalāti-l-fajr.
Yes, every day after the dawn prayer.
YŪSUF
وَهَلْ تَحْفَظِينَ كُلَّ السُّورَةِ؟
wa hal taḥfaẓīna kulla-s-sūrah?
And do you memorise the whole sūrah?
MARYAM
أَحْفَظُ بَعْضَهَا فَقَطْ حَتَّى الْآنَ.
aḥfaẓu ba‘ḍahā fa qaṭ ḥattā-l-ān.
I only memorise some of it, so far.
YŪSUF
كُلُّ يَوْمٍ خَيْرٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ.
kullu yawmin khayrun in shā’a-llāh.
Every day is good progress, God willing.
02 — CORE WORDS
الْمُفْرَدَاتُVocabulary
Both كُلٌّ and بَعْضٌ act as the first word of an iḍāfah, just like بَيْتُ اللَّهِ back in Chapter Twelve.
Arabic
Says
Meaning
Note
REVIEWكُلَّيَوْمٍ
kulla yawmin
every day (adverb)
Accusative of time — no preposition needed.
REVIEWكُلُّيَوْمٍ
kullu yawmin
every day (as subject)
Nominative, when كُلٌّ itself is the mubtada’.
NEWبَعْضُ/بَعْضَ
ba‘ḍu / ba‘ḍa
some of
Case depends on its job in the sentence.
NEWحَفِظَ/يَحْفَظُ
ḥafiẓa / yaḥfaẓu
he memorised / he memorises
—
NEWسُورَةٌ
sūrah
a chapter of the Qur'ān
—
NEWحَتَّىالْآنَ
ḥattā-l-ān
until now, so far
—
NEWصَلَاةُالْفَجْرِ
ṣalātu-l-fajr
the dawn prayer
—
NEWخَيْرٌ
khayr
good, better
—
Also in this chapter's dialogue and reading.
Arabic
Says
Meaning
Note
EARLYأُحَاوِلُ
uḥāwil
I try
—
EARLYأَحْفَظُ / حَفِظْتُ
aḥfaẓ / ḥafiẓtu
I memorise / I memorised
—
EARLYالْبَاقِي
al-bāqī
the rest, the remainder
—
EARLYيُصْبِحُ
yuṣbiḥ
becomes
—
EARLYعَامٌ
‘ām
a year
Synonym of سَنَة from Chapter Eight.
03 — HOW THE LANGUAGE WORKS
رُكْنُ الْقَوَاعِدِGrammar Corner
The accusative of time. To say “every day” as an adverb describing when an action happens, Arabic puts the whole phrase in the accusative with no preposition at all.
أَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ
... kulla yawmin I read the Qur'ān every day (accusative of time)
كُلُّ يَوْمٍ خَيْرٌ
kullu yawmin khayrun Every day is good (كُلُّ here is the subject, so nominative)
Same word, two different jobs — compare this to the raf‘/naṣb distinction you first met all the way back in your case-ending studies. بَعْضُ/بَعْضَ works exactly the same way.
Quick check: in “أَحْفَظُ آيَةً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ” (I memorise a verse every day), why is كُلَّ accusative? (It's an adverb of time, not the subject.)
04 — READING THE SOURCE
وَقْفَةٌ قُرْآنِيَّةٌQur'ān Connection
One of the Qur'ān's most repeated phrases about Allah's power — now paired with real verbs around it.
SŪRAT AL-BAQARAH — 2:20
إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Indeed, Allah is competent over all things.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ
inna-llāh
indeed Allah
عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
‘alā kulli shay’in
over every thing
قَدِيرٌ
qadīr
competent, able
كُلِّ here is genitive because it follows the preposition عَلَى, and شَيْءٍ is genitive as the second word of the iḍāfah كُلِّ شَيْءٍ. You'll formally meet إِنَّ, which starts this verse, in the very next chapter.
05 — SAY IT LIKE A NATIVE
عِبَارَاتٌ يَوْمِيَّةٌEveryday Phrases
Everyday phrases using كُلٌّ and بَعْضٌ.
كُلُّ عَامٍ وَأَنْتَ بِخَيْرٍ
kullu ‘āmin wa anta bi-khayr — many happy returns
بَعْضُ الْوَقْتِ
ba‘ḍu-l-waqt — some of the time, sometimes
كُلُّ شَيْءٍ بِخَيْرٍ
kullu shay’in bi-khayr — everything is fine
أَقْرَأُ بَعْضَ الْآيَاتِ
aqra’u ba‘ḍa-l-āyāt — I read some of the verses
بَعْضُ النَّاسِ يَعْرِفُ
ba‘ḍu-n-nāsi ya‘rif — some people know
كُلُّ الشُّكْرِ لَكَ
kullu-sh-shukri lak — all thanks to you
مَرَّةً كُلَّ أُسْبُوعٍ
marratan kulla usbū‘ — once every week
بَعْضُ الْأَحْيَانِ
ba‘ḍu-l-aḥyān — sometimes, occasionally
SKILLS PRACTICE
الِاسْتِمَاعُListening
Audio track 19.1
Aḥmad and Salmā talk about their Qur'ān memorisation. Listen first, script second.
AḨMAD
كَمْ سُورَةً حَفِظْتِ؟
SALMĀ
حَفِظْتُ بَعْضَ السُّوَرِ الْقَصِيرَةِ فَقَطْ.
AḨMAD
أَنَا أُحَاوِلُ أَنْ أَحْفَظَ آيَةً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.
SALMĀ
هَذَا جَمِيلٌ! كُلُّ قَلِيلٍ يُصْبِحُ كَثِيرًا.
What has Salmā memorised so far?
What is Aḥmad trying to do every day?
What does Salmā say about ‘little by little’?
Reveal answers
1. Only some short sūrahs. 2. Memorise one verse. 3. She says every little bit adds up to a lot.
SKILLS PRACTICE
التَّحَدُّثُSpeaking
Pair work
Partner drill. Ask your partner what they do كُلَّ يَوْمٍ (every day) and what they only do بَعْضَ الْأَحْيَانِ (sometimes).
Recycling round — end of Phase 3 checkpoint. Before the dual and the remaining core grammar, run one full mini-conversation touching kāna/laysa, a past-tense verb, an object pronoun, and كُلّ/بَعْض — the whole "past tense & detail" block in one exchange.
Letters
Word 1
Word 2
Tip
كُلُّ vs كُلَّ
كُلُّ يَوْمٍ خَيْرٌ
أَقْرَأُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ
The ‑u ending marks the subject of a sentence; the ‑a ending marks the adverbial ‘every day’ — same word, different job.
1. False — only some short sūrahs so far. 2. True. 3. True.
SKILLS PRACTICE
قِرَاءَةٌ حُرَّةٌFree Reading
Hover to check — no test, just read
A short passage using only words you've met so far. Just read for meaning — hover any word if you get stuck. Flip the switch to check whole sentences instead of single words.