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Practice Feminine Plurals – Answers Posted by aziza on Nov 7, 2012
In this post, I give the answers of the exercises that deal with feminine Plurals (جمع المؤنث السالم) presented yesterday. Here are the feminine plural forms: They (fem. Pl.) هن Them (fem. Pl.) ـهن Their (fem. Pl.) ـهن You – subject pronoun (fem. Pl.) أنتن Your (fem. Pl.) ـكن…
Practice feminine plurals Posted by aziza on Nov 6, 2012
Feminine Plurals (جمع المؤنث السالم) are formed by replacing the suffix (ة) at the end of feminine words by the suffix (ات) First, do you remember feminine plural forms? They (fem. Pl.) هن Them (fem. Pl.) ـهن Their (fem. Pl.) ـهن You – subject pronoun (fem. Pl.) أنتن Your (fem…
practice the dual – answers Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In this post, I present the answers of the exercises presented earlier to practice the dual, as well as the translation of the sentences. Change the underlined words in these sentences into dual and make the necessary changes: 1. هذا هو الولد الذي يلعب مع أخي هذان هما الولدان اللذان يلعبان مع أخي This is…
practice the dual Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In Arabic, dual forms can be very confusing to speakers of English who learn Arabic as a foreign language. This is basically because there is no dual in English, and it is very easy to miss dual in Arabic sentences. In this post, I aim to give you a chance to practice different dual forms…
Fisal’s Dictionary_”to build” Posted by Fisal on Oct 21, 2012
Today, we are going to go on a journey to the depths of the Arabic Dictionary in order to discover some of its secrets. We will look up the root verb بـَـنـَـى and explore some of its derivatives. * بـَــنــَـى /bana/ [V. T.]: (something) = to build. Ex. – تبنى الحكومةُ مدارسَ جديدةً …
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…