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The Verbal Sentence (Part 3) – Subject-Verb Agreement: Number Posted by Fisal on Oct 16, 2012
Today we are going to continue our study of the Verbal Sentence الـجـمـلــة الـفـعـلـيـــة . We have already discussed the Verb in more detail and the Subject or doer of the verb. In this post we will discuss the subject-verb agreement; how the verb looks like with different subjects. To be more specific, what…
Arabic Nouns of Place Posted by aziza on Oct 14, 2012
ظرف المكان is a special category of nouns in Arabic used in a sentence to denote place. It is a special type of noun in Arabic, but it can be understood as an adverbial of place, as it gives the place in which a certain action takes place. It is the word that answers the…
An Introduction مُقَدِّمَة Posted by jesa on Oct 13, 2012
“Record it, I am an Arab and my identity card number is 50,000”, (سَجِّل أنا عَربي ورَقِم بطاقَتي خَمسون أَلف) says the great Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish (محمود دَرويش) in his famous poem Record it, I am an Arab. And I say to you too: record this, I am an Arab. In my blog posts…
World Teacher’s Day Posted by Fisal on Oct 12, 2012
World Teacher’s Day الـيــوم الـعــالــمـــى لـلـمـُــعـَــلــِّــم is celebrated all across the globe on 5th October, every year. The day came to be celebrated for the first time in the year 1994 and since then, it has been observed by 100 countries in the world. On this day, teachers are honored for their immense contribution…
Arabic Nouns to Denote Time Posted by aziza on Oct 11, 2012
ظرف الزمان is a special category of nouns in Arabic used in a sentence to denote time. It is a special type of noun in Arabic, but it can be understood as an adverbial of time, as it gives the time a certain action takes place. It is the word that answers the question: “when…
A word search game in Arabic, answers Posted by aziza on Sep 30, 2012
In this post, I present the answer of the word game presented in the previous post. مدرسة معلم طالب واجب كتاب دفتر قلم سبورة صف ناظر 1- school 2- teacher 3- student 4- homework 5- book 6- notebook 7- pen 8- blackboard 9- classroom 10- head teacher
A word search game in Arabic Posted by aziza on Sep 29, 2012
In this post, I have created an Arabic word search game for you. Can you find the 10 words below in the table? If you are not sure about the meaning of any word, look at the bottom of the page for the translation. All the words are related to school. مدرسة معلم طالب واجب…