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Take charge of your workday and collaborate effectively by mastering the vocabulary of project management, from setting deadlines to analyzing progress.

### Expressing "Both"

To emphasize that two people or things are involved, Arabic uses specific words for "both" that agree in gender and grammatical case with the noun they modify:

- Masculine: كلاهما in the nominative case (for subjects) and كليهما in the accusative or genitive case (for objects).
- Feminine: كلتاهما for the nominative and كلتيهما for the accusative or genitive.

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### Actions Already Completed

When giving project updates on a phase (مرحلة), you will often explain that someone had already initiated (بادر) a task while another action took place. 

To express that an action "had already" occurred, combine the conjunction و (meaning "while" or "and" in this context) with the particle قد, followed directly by a past-tense verb.

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### Time and Purpose Conjunctions

Managing projects requires clearly communicating timelines, conditions, and goals. You will frequently use these conjunctions:
- طالما : as long as
- بينما : while
- كي : in order to
- حتى لا : so that... not

Use these conjunctions when discussing how to utilize (استغل) a mechanism (آلية), measuring the pace (وتيرة) of work, or ensuring that a deadline does not elapse (انقضى).

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Project Management

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

interrogative

noun

numeral

particle

prefix

preposition

pronoun

sentence

verb

The definite article and locatives (الـ)

Basic noun gender (ة)

Sun and moon letters

Singular subject pronouns (أنا، أنت، هو، هي)

Indefinite nouns and nominal sentences (ـٌ)

Demonstrative pronouns for 'this' (هذا / هذه)

Separate prepositions (في، من، إلى، على)

Attributive adjectives

Predicative adjectives

Yes/No questions (هل، أ)

Basic questions (من، ما، أين)

Singular possessive pronouns (ـي، ـك، ـه، ـها)

Plural subject pronouns (نحن، أنتم، هم)

Plural possessive pronouns (ـنا، ـكم، ـهم)

Noun possession

Attached prepositions (بـ، لـ، كـ)

Pronouns with prepositions

Having and possessing (عند، لـ، مع)

Regular plural nouns (ـون، ـين، ـات)

Broken plurals

Dual nouns (ـان / ـين)

Plural and distant demonstratives (هؤلاء، ذلك، تلك)

Non-human plural agreement

Present tense singular verbs

Verbal sentences (VSO)

Present tense plural verbs

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The indefinite accusative case (ـاً)

Verb object pronouns (-ني، -ك، -ه)

Present tense negation (لا)

Question words with verbs (متى، كيف...)

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Past tense singular suffixes

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Numbers 1 to 10

Number agreement for 1 and 2 (واحد، اثنان)

Asking how many (كم)

Numbers 3 to 10 (ثلاثة إلى عشرة)

Ordinal numbers 1 to 10 (الأول، الثاني)

Basic conjunctions (فـ، أو، لكن)

Ordering at a café (واحد، اثنان)

Food and drink with conjunctions (و، ف، أو، لكن)

There is and there are (هناك / ليس هناك)

Direct address (يا)

Giving reasons (لأنّ)

Relative pronouns (الذي / التي)

Quantifiers (كل / بعض)

The past tense of 'to be' (كان)

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Numbers 11 to 19 and tens to 80

Telling time (الساعة)

This book vs this is a book (هذا الكتاب، هذا كتاب)

Greetings (مرحبا، السلام عليكم)

How are you? and goodbye (كيف حالك، مع السلامة)

Nationalities (مصري، مصرية)

Roots and patterns (كتب، كتاب، مكتب)

Politeness (من فضلك، آسف)

Complex possession chains

Colors and traits (أفعل / فعلاء)

Plural colors and traits (فُعْل)

Comparative adjectives (أفعل من)

Superlative adjectives (أفعل)

Adverbs of manner (ـاً)

The nominative case (ـُ)

The genitive case (ـِ)

The accusative case (ـَ)

Dual noun cases (ـان / ـين)

Masculine plurals and 'the best of' (أفضل النجارين)

Emphasizing sentences (إنّ)

Connecting clauses (أنّ)

Reporting speech (قال إنّ)

Expressing contrast (لكنّ)

Comparison and probability (كأنّ, لعلّ)

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Plural relative pronouns (الذين, اللواتي)

Past habits (كان + present)

Ongoing actions (ما زال)

Masculine plurals online (مبرمجون، مؤثرون)

Perfective past (قد)

Probability (قد)

The subjunctive mood (أن)

Question	Answer
to analyze	حللhallala
indicator	مؤشرmu'ashshir
Both engineers analyzed the indicators.	حللت المهندستان كلتاهما المؤشرات.hallalati al-muhandisatâni kiltâhumâ al-mu'ashsharât.
obstacle	عائق'â'iq
Analyze the two obstacles, both of them!	حللي العائقين كليهما!hallilee al'â'iqayni kilayhimâ
to motivate	حفزhafaza
to initiate	بادرbâdara
phase	مرحلةmarhala
She motivated the team, having already initiated the new phase.	حفزت الفريق وقد بادرت بالمرحلة الجديدة.haffazati l-fariiqa wa qad bâdarat bil-marhalati l-jadiida
to utilize	استغلistaghalla
mechanism	آليةâliyyah
We will utilize the mechanism as long as the phase has started.	سنستغل الآلية طالما بدأت المرحلة.sanastaghillu al-âliyyata tâlamâ bada'ati al-marhalatu
pace	وتيرةwatîra
The manager motivated the workers, and they had already increased the pace.	حفزت المديرة العمال وقد زادوا الوتيرة.haffazati al-mudîratu al-'ummâla wa qad zâdû al-watîrata
to elapse	انقضىinqadâ
Initiate the project so the deadline does not elapse.	بادر بالمشروع حتى لا ينقضي الموعد.bâdir bil-mashrou'i hattâ lâ yanqadiya al-maw'idu
The time elapsed while both of them analyzed the obstacle.	انقضى الوقت بينما حلل كلاهما العائق.inqadâ al-waqtu baynamâ hallala kilâhumâ al-â'iqa
The mechanism is an indicator of the pace of work.	الآلية مؤشر على وتيرة العمل.al-âliyyatu mu'ashshirun 'alâ watîrati al-'amali
Utilize the mechanism in order to overcome the obstacle.	استغل الآلية كي تتغلب على العائق.istaghilla al-âliyyata kay tataghallaba 'alâ al-'â'iq
Both phases started at a fast pace.	بدأت المرحلتان كلتاهما بوتيرة سريعة.bada'ati al-marhalatâni kiltâhumâ biwatiiratin sarii'atin
The time elapsed, and we had already analyzed all the indicators.	انقضى الوقت وقد حللنا كل المؤشرات.inqadâ al-waqtu wa qad hallalnâ kulla al-mu'ashsharâti
launch, release (of a product)	إطلاقitlâq
The project's launch date is in the spring.	موعد إطلاق المشروع في الربيع.maw'idu itlâqi al-mashrû'i fi ar-rabî'
The company announced the launch of a new product.	أعلنت الشركة إطلاق منتج جديد.a'lanati ash-sharikatu itlâqa muntajin jadîdin

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