Albanian Online
Table of Contents
Jonathan Slocum, Brian Joseph, and Angelo Costanzo
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Lessons
0. Introduction to Albanian
1. Excerpt from the 2008 Constitution of Kosovo
2. Excerpt from Kadare's The General of the Dead Army
3. Excerpt from Barleti's biography of Skenderbeg
4. Excerpt from the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjinit
5. Excerpt from the Missal of Gjon Buzuku
Grammar Points
1. General Syntactic Concerns
2. The Albanian Noun
2.1. Grammatical Gender
2.2. Inflectional Categories
3. Noun Inflection
3.1. Feminine Noun Inflection
3.2. Masculine Noun Inflection
4. "Nyje" Particles
5. Adjectives
5.1. Articulated Adjectives
5.2. Unarticulated Adjectives
6. Verb Basics: 'be' and 'have'
7. Prepositions
8. The Albanian Verb
9. The Present Tense
9.1. Use of the Present Tense
9.2. Present Tense Conjugation - Active voice
9.3. Present Tense Conjugation - Non-active voice
10. The Imperfect Tense
10.1. Use of the Imperfect
10.2. Imperfect Tense Conjugation
10.3. The Imperfect Tense in Geg
11. Participles
11.1. Uses of the Participle
11.2. Formation of the Past Participle
11.3. Participles in Geg
12. The Present Perfect Tense
12.1. Use of the Present Perfect Tense
12.2. Formation of the Present Perfect
12.3. The Present Perfect in Geg
13. Negation
14. Subordination
14.1. Indicative Subordination
14.2. Subjunctive Subordination
14.3. Relative Clauses
15. Demonstrative Adjectives/Pronouns
15.1. Distal Demonstratives
15.2. Proximal Demonstratives
16. Personal Pronouns
17. Weak Pronouns
17.1. Forms of Weak Pronouns
17.2. Position of weak pronouns
17.3. Use of clitic pronouns
17.4. Weak Pronoun Combinations, Combinations With të
18. Possessive Pronouns
18.1. Forms of Possessive Pronouns
18.2. Placement of Possessive Pronouns
19. The Future Tense
19.1. Future
19.2. Future Perfect
19.3. The Future Tense in Geg
20. The Conditional Mood
20.1. The Present Conditional
20.2. The Past Conditional
20.3. The Conditional Mood in Geg
21. The Past Definite Tense
21.1. Use of the Past Definite Tense
21.2. Formation of the Past Definite Tense
22. Pluperfect and Past Perfect Tenses
22.1. Use of the Pluperfect and the Past Perfect
22.2. Formation of the Pluperfect and the Past Perfect
23. Voice
23.1. Present stem non-actives
23.2. Aorist stem non-actives
23.3. Compound non-actives
24. Participial Formations
24.1. Infinitives in Tosk/Standard Albanian
24.2. Infinitives in Geg
24.3. Gerundives
24.4. Privative
25. Numerals
25.1. Cardinal Numbers
25.2. Ordinal numbers
26. The Imperative Mood
26.1. Formation of the Second Person Plural Imperative
26.2. Formation of the Second Person Singular Imperative
27. The Optative Mood
27.1. Use of the Optative Mood
27.2. Formation of the Present Optative
27.3. Formation of the Present Perfect Optative
28. The Admirative Mood
28.1. Use of the Admirative Mood
28.2. Present Admirative
28.3. Imperfect Admirative
28.4. Compound Admirative Tenses
29. Questions