Archive for 'Grammar'
Listening Comprehension Exercise: Moroccan Food Posted by Fisal on Jun 6, 2014
Have you ever been to Morocco الــمــَــغــْـــرِب? If yes, what did you like most? What do you miss? If no, then what do you already know about Morocco? Or what do you want to know? In today’s video from Al-Arabiya News Channel, we are going to take a little tour around Morocco and…
Arabic Translation Answer: An Idea Posted by Fisal on May 24, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Here is the English translation of the article “An Idea فــِــكــْــرة” by Mustafa Amin. For more information about Mustafa Amin, please check our blogs about him(part 1 and Part 2). Also, to view the article in Arabic, kindly refer to our previous post Fikrah فــِــكــْــرَة . I hope you will…
Arabic Translation Exercise: An Idea Posted by Fisal on May 23, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a translation exercise. We are going to read a short article by one of the famous 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…
Reading Comprehension Answers: Pharaonic Wedding Posted by Fisal on May 15, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Here are the answers for the reading comprehension exercise about the pharaonic wedding. To view the exercise again, click here. الإجــَـــابـــَــــات Answers اِســْـــم الــشــَـــرِكــَـــة الــمــُــنــَـــظـــِّـــمــَـــة لـِـلــْــحــَـــفـــْـــلِ هــُــو “الأمــِـــيــرة ســِــيــنــَــا جــُـــروب” 1) The company that organized the wedding is “Al-Amirah Sina Group”. تــَـــمَّ الــْــحــَـــفـــْـــل فــى مـديــنــة شــَــرم الــشــيـخ فــجــر الــثــُّــلاثــَــاء الــمــَــاضــى . …
Identifying passive participles Posted by aziza on May 9, 2014
Passive participle (اسم المفعول) is a specific form in Arabic which is used commonly to refer to the object of the action. This form is derived from verbs in certain ways. From form I verbs, e.g.كتب – درس – حمل , the active participle follows the pattern مفعول , for example, كتب – مكتوب درس…
Recognizing active participles Posted by aziza on May 7, 2014
Active participle (اسم الفاعل) is a specific form in Arabic which is used commonly to refer to the doer of the action. This form is derived from verbs in certain ways. From form I verbs, e.g.كتب – درس – حمل , the active participle follows the pattern فاعل , for example, كتب – كاتب درس…
Practice the use of prepositions Posted by aziza on Apr 30, 2014
Last week, I presented a reading passage about reading to practice our comprehension. Today, I use the same passage to practice the use of prepositions. Please use the pronouns below to complete the passage as appropriate. When finished, scroll down to the end of the page to check the answers. عن، ل، في،من، على،…