Albanian Online

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 Dukagjini
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.