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Adverbs of space (2) ظرف المكان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 11, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. We’re still focusing on spatial adverbs. You can catch up and read the previous post (part one) that I published before the new year, by clicking here. So, in the last post, we learnt that a spatial adverb is a word that refers to the…
Adverbs of space (1) ظرف المكان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 8, 2021
Salam سلام 🙂 We’re going to continue our series about adverbs الظُروف in Standard Arabic. Last month, two posts were dedicated to adverbs: the temporal adverb ظرف الزمان (Click here and here). Today (and in the next blog), we’re going to look at the other popular type of adverb, and that is: Spatial adverb ظرف المكان. To…
Temporal adverbs in Arabic (2) ظرف الزمان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 4, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. We’re still focusing on temporal adverbs. You can catch up and read the previous post – the first part – by clicking here. In the last post, we started learning about adverbs in Arabic and started focusing on the first type, which is temporal adverbs ظروف…
Forming Questions in MSA and Levantine Arabic Posted by yasmine on Dec 2, 2020
Questions الأسْئِلة are straightforward in Arabic. There is no special form of the verb used with questions. In this post, we’ll look at the way to form questions in Arabic in both MSA اللُغة العَرَبية الفُصحى and Levantine اللَّهْجَةُ الشَّامِيَّة using the appropriate question words. I have provided examples for practice and audio to help…
Temporal adverbs in Arabic (1) ظرف الزمان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 1, 2020
Hello dear Arabic learners! Welcome to a new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة 🙂 Today, we’re going to be learning about a specific grammatical feature, and that is: adverbs الظروف in Standard Arabic. This week, we’ll start with the temporal adverb ْظَرْفْ الزَّمَان (in two parts) and the two blog posts after will…
The five sense: exercises Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 2, 2020
Hello there مرحبا! Welcome to this post where we will practice our knowledge of the five senses الحواس الخمس in Arabic. We learnt about them in detail in the last post (click here to read the post). 🌟To refresh your memory, here are the five senses: The sense of sight حاسة البصر The…
The five senses الحواس الخمس Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 28, 2020
Welcome to a new blog – مرحبًا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة 😀. Today, we’re going to learn about the five senses الحواس الخمس in Arabic. We’re first going to list the senses and then move to the sensing organs or body part(s) أجزاء الجسم through which each sense functions تعمل. Finally, we’re going to look…