Archive for 'Grammar'
Arabic Translation Answer: ‘This Article is not for you!’ Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Here is the English translation of the article “This Article is not for you هــَــذا الـمــَــقــَــالُ لا يــَــعــْــنــيــك” by the Saudi journalist Muhammad Al-Rotayyan مـُــحــَــمــَّــد الــرُّطــَـــيــَّـــانْ who writes for Al-Madinah newspaper. For more information about Al-Rotayyan, please click on his name above. Also, to view the article in Arabic, kindly…
Arabic Translation Exercise: ‘This Article is not for you!’ Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a translation exercise. We are going to read a short article by one of the Arab writers. The article will be in Arabic and you are going to test your Arabic reading skill and translate the article into English. Of course I will post the…
Nizar Qabbani: Al-Quds Posted by Fisal on Jul 31, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Today, I am going to present a poem by the great Arab poet نــِــزار قــَــبــَّـــانــِــى Nizar Qabbani. The poem is entitled الــقــُــدْسُ /Al-Quds/ (Jerusalem). In the poem, the poet longs for peace الــســَّــلام and for the land to come back to its owners. He longs for the time when blood الــدَّم and aggression الــعــُــدْوَان will stop. He never loses hope الأمــَــل in spite…
The Verbal Sentence (Part 7) : The Passive Verb Gender Posted by Fisal on Jul 23, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! I know Arabic grammar is giving you some headache especially about the gender of (passive) verbs that must agree in number and gender with the subject or the deputy agent in passive sentences. Such headache does exist in all languages and Arabic is no exception. In the process of learning…
Listening Comprehension Answers: Ramadan Desserts Posted by Fisal on Jul 3, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Did you like the listening comprehension exercise about Ramadan Desserts? How did you score? In today’s post I am going to provide the answers for every one of you to check. Spending Ramadan in any Muslim or Arab country is so special. It is the month of Sawm الــصــيــام (fasting)…
Listening Comprehension Exercise: Ramadan Desserts Posted by Fisal on Jul 2, 2014
Have you ever been to a Muslim country in Ramadan رمــضــان ? Muslims all over the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan these days. Ramadan is the Arabic month of Sawm الــصــيــام (fasting) which is the fourth pillar رُكــْـــن of Islam (You can find more information about the Five Pillars of Islam here)…
The present tense verb endings1 Posted by aziza on Jun 27, 2014
As explained in my previous post, there are three cases of the present tense verb, the default case, the imperfect (المرفوع), the subjunctive (المنصوب), and the jussive (المجزوم). The case of the verb depends on what precedes it. In this post, I explain the three cases of the present tense verb with suffix endings (ان،…