In colloquial Arabic, a hammer is called a shakoosh. What is the basic verb of this noun? Also, is there a basic verb for the noun mustashfa - hospital? I find it a very big jump from colloqial Arabic to modern standard Arabic. Help!

The word Shakoosh (شاكوش) is a loanword from Turkish/Persian, so it does not have root in Arabic, and it is just used in colloquial.
Mustashfaa (مستشفى) is an Arabic word and its root is (شفي) which is to treat someone.

What about tools that use the wazn fa3aala. For example blender khallaatah and washing mashine gassaalah? Or is that something different?

Well,, we went through it in the last wazn, we gave examples of thallajah and darrajah.

Oops my bad. My lesson didn't download fully and I guess that's what I missed. Sorry. On a separate note, can you tell me how to say "make up your mind" in Arabic? Thanks

Dear brothers! Good job! I am amazed at the charisma you guys have. Just a note: I would like you also to be teaching some of the wonderful do3a2 and wisdom sayings in your lessons. Especially, if you can teach us how to madh Allah SWT. With great respect,

Abdul

Ahlan Abdul,
Inshallah we'll do more lessons about that.. Have you heard the lesson (Oh my lord)? it is a nice supplication. Hope you'll benefit from it.

That was a brilliant lesson. You gave a concept that I can apply to so much of the vocabulary that we've already learnt in Beginner and Intermediate. The awzaan make everything very clear. My only doubts are with exact meanings of the roots.
In fact, you should include the meanings of all the roots along with the wazan examples. It's like one of those Eureka moments...everything makes sense.
In 'elevator' What does 9-3-d mean by itself?
And don't the 6-r-q in mi6raqah appear in the form 6ariiqah, 6uruq, etc. What's the connection between 'hammerin'g and 'way'?

I understand f-t-7 and sh-r-6, but what about-
n-sh-r
s-6-r
k-n-s
th-q-b
Is mi67ana a grinder? B-r-d means cold- so what is mibrad? A cooler? Wasn't that called 'mukayyif'- Air conditioner. And a fridge is thallaajah, so then what is mibrad!?

Lastly, in the example sentences, you used the term 3andamaa for 'when.' Where do we use 7eenama for 'when'. Are there other words with this meaning?
Also, you gave the imperative of kaana is given as kun. Is this irregular?
Im very glad that you gave us a lesson full of awzaan that we could apply. How about one on formation of imperatives? I know that things get complicated with different awzaan for different forms...and you haven't used that Form i-X classification in any lesson so far. So that one seems far fetched. But what we could do is have a lesson with all the irregulars together. They're only a handful after all (like kul, kun, khudh, ta:aal).
Oh and one more thing...do all your guest recordings happen in London studios? You see- I'd love to be part of a podcast but I live in New Delhi, India. Can they may conducted with microphones over the net? Please let me know. I think that the work you and Mohammed are doing is fabulous and I'd be honoured if I could help out!:D
Warm regards
Abhishek

Ahlan again Abhishek,

The roots of the words in Arabic are normally the past tense of the verb, like JaMa3a (collected), WaQaFa (stood up)...
The verb 9a3ada is to raise and lift something, that's why the lift or evaluator is me93ad.
I see the logic behind linking the words 6araqa and 6areeq, but they are really two different words.
The meaning of the words you listed is the following:
nashara: to saw or cut
sa66ara: to line up something
kanasa: to sweep
thaqaba: to drill

Mi67anah is a grinder, and mebrad is derived from barada which is to file (smooth) something, so it is not from bard which is cold.
The words حينما and عندما are synonyms, the difference between them is very fine because حينما is derived from حين which is ظرف زمان so it is more to do with time, while عندما is coming from عند which is mostly ظرف مكان so it is more to be linked with place.
Kun is the order of Kaana, it is regular like qaala - qul.
With regards to the imperatives lesson, as we said, inshallah we'll do one soon.

All the best.