Maltese Grammar

The Maltese grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Maltese and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: u	Under: taħt
Before: qabel	After: wara
Inside: ġewwa	Outside: barra
With: ma'	But: imma
For: għall- / għal	From: minn
To: lejn / għall- / għal	In: ġo

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: liema?	Who?: min?
How?: kif?	Why?: għaliex?
Where?: fejn?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: qatt	Rarely: rari
Sometimes: kultant	Usually: normalment
Always: dejjem	Very: ħafna

Most commonly used pronouns in Maltese:

I: jien	You: int
He: hu	She: hi
We: aħna	They: huma

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: tiegħi	Your: tiegħek
His: tiegħu	Her: tagħha
Our: tagħna	Their: tagħhom

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: jien nitkellem bl-ingliż

You speak French: inti titkellem bil-franċiż

He speaks German: hu jitkellem bil-ġermaniż

She speaks Italian: hi titkellem bit-taljan

I visited France: jien żort franza

I will drink milk: jien se nixrob ħalib

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: nifhemek

I don't understand you: ma nifhmekx

I don't speak French: ma nitkellimx bil-franċiż

This is my house: din hija d-dar tiegħi

That restaurant is far: dak ir-restorant huwa 'l bogħod

No problem: mhux problema

The above Maltese grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Maltese vocabulary to obtain some popular Maltese phrases.