Archive for February, 2010
Expressing Likes and Dislikes in Arabic Posted by aziza on Feb 9, 2010
There are some expressions that we can use to express likes and dislikes in Arabic. أحب السباحة. “I like swimming.” لا أحب الشطرنج. “I don’t like chess.” أحب الرياضة جداً/كثيراً. “I like sports very much” لا أحب كرة القدم أبداً/إطلاقاً. “I don’t like football at all.” المفضّل/ المفضّلة “Favorite” هوايتي المفضّلة هي القراءة. “My favorite…
Arabic Irregular Verbs: Hollow Verbs (Part 2) Posted by aziza on Feb 6, 2010
This post deals with conjugation of verbs that have a medial vowel (ا). They are called hollow verbs(الفعل الأجوف), e.g. (نام) ‘slept’, (باع) ‘sold’, (قام) ‘got up’, etc. In the past tense, the medial vowel disappears with some pronouns, i.e. first and second person pronouns in addition to the third person feminine plural pronoun. The…
Arabic Irregular Verbs: Hollow Verbs (Part 1) Posted by aziza on Feb 3, 2010
This post deals with conjugation of verbs that have a medial vowel (ا). They are called hollow verbs(الفعل الأجوف), e.g. (نام) ‘slept’, (باع) ‘sold’, (قام) ‘got up’, etc. In the present tense, the medial vowel can change, as it becomes like its root. The three examples below give examples of three verbs that behave differently…