Guided A1 grammar course

Understand the patterns.
Build your own sentences.

Work through short lessons with clear explanations, tables, practical vocabulary, pronunciation help, and examples in Armenian, transliteration, and English.

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01Foundations

Personal pronouns and politeness

Say who is doing something and choose the correct informal or polite form of “you”.

8 min
02Foundations

The verb “to be”

Build identity, description, location, and state sentences with the present-tense copula.

10 min
03Foundations

Indefinite and definite articles

Express “a” and “the” with the Armenian article system.

9 min
04Foundations

This, that, and the three-way system

Distinguish what is near the speaker, near the listener, or farther from both.

9 min
05Foundations

The verb “to have”

Talk about possessions, relatives, time, and things that are available.

9 min
06Sentence building

Basic sentence order

Assemble useful sentences without translating English word for word.

9 min
07Sentence building

Present tense of regular verbs

Say what you do and what is happening now with the characteristic -ում form.

12 min
08Sentence building

Negation

Make negative identity, state, possession, and action sentences.

10 min
09Sentence building

Yes/no questions

Turn a statement into a question without changing its basic word order.

8 min
10Sentence building

Question words

Ask for people, things, places, times, reasons, choices, and quantities.

11 min
11Nouns and cases

Noun plurals

Form regular plurals and recognize the most useful irregular forms.

10 min
12Nouns and cases

Possession

Say my, your, our, and someone’s without English-style apostrophes.

11 min
13Nouns and cases

The seven cases: overview

See how noun endings express subject, object, possession, direction, origin, means, and location.

12 min
14Nouns and cases

Accusative and dative

Mark people as direct objects and identify the recipient of an action.

11 min
15Nouns and cases

Ablative, instrumental, and locative

Say from where, by what means, and in or at what place.

11 min
16Numbers and description

Cardinal numbers

Count, state age, read prices, and build larger numbers predictably.

14 min
17Numbers and description

Ordinal numbers

Say first, second, third, floors, rankings, and positions in a sequence.

12 min
18Numbers and description

Common adjectives

Describe size, age, quality, difficulty, speed, temperature, and price.

12 min
19Numbers and description

Common emotions and states

Say how you feel physically and emotionally with simple “to be” sentences.

11 min
20Numbers and description

Colors

Describe everyday objects and recognize the most common color words.

8 min
21Daily language

Time, days, and calendar words

Talk about today, tomorrow, the days of the week, and clock time.

13 min
22Daily language

Location and postpositions

Place objects on, under, inside, beside, behind, or in front of something.

11 min
23Daily language

There is and there are

Say that something exists or is available, and ask whether it is nearby.

8 min
24Daily language

Can, want, need, and must

Express ability, wishes, necessities, and permission with complete present-tense patterns.

20 min
25Daily language

Commands and polite requests

Ask someone to come, wait, repeat, give, or speak more slowly.

13 min
26Tenses and connections

Simple past

Talk about a completed event with common regular and irregular past forms.

14 min
27Tenses and connections

Future plans with -ու

Say what you will do or are going to do with a very common future construction.

11 min
28Tenses and connections

Comparatives and superlatives

Compare two things and identify the biggest, cheapest, or best one.

9 min
29Tenses and connections

Connectors and simple clauses

Join ideas with and, but, or, because, that, and if.

10 min
30Tenses and connections

Essential conversation patterns

Combine the course’s grammar into introductions, clarification, directions, prices, and help.

12 min

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