Tag Archives: Active participle
Deriving Nouns from Verbs in Arabic (1) Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jul 3, 2018
A distinguishing feature of Arabic language is that it is a derivational language. Multiple words are derived from a single root word based specific morphological rules. Using the morphological measure, affixes (suffixes, prefixes, and infixes) are appended to the root word forming news words. For example, form the root كَتَبَ ‘write’, we derive كَاتِب ‘writer’…
What is the Active Participle in Arabic? (II) Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Sep 4, 2017
In the previous post, I explained what the active participle (AP) اِسمُ الفَاعِل means, when it functions as an adjective and when it is used as a noun, and how it is formed from active verbs. This post is about its derivation from intransitive verbs الأَفْعَال اللازِمَة and complex verbs الأَفْعَال المَزِيْدَة. Also, I will…
What is the Active Participle in Arabic? (I) Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Aug 31, 2017
The active participle (AP) is known as اِسمُ الفَاعِل in Arabic. It is one of many Arabic noun types that are derived from active verbs. Depending on how it is used in phrases or sentences, AP can be classified into two forms: adjectival (i.e. like an adjective) noun and non-adjectival noun (i.e. the doer or…
The Arabic active participle (Verb form VI-X) Posted by aziza on Jul 10, 2009
In this post, I continue to explain the formation of the active participle (اسم الفاعل) from verb forms (VI-X), and I give some exceptional rules to note when making this form, especially as regards doubled verbs. In the beginning, I remind you of the steps that we have to follow to form the active participle…
The Arabic active participle (Form II-V) Posted by aziza on Jul 6, 2009
In a previous post, I introduced the active participle (اسم الفاعل) which is an important derivative that denotes the doer of the action of the person involved in doing the action. It has been noted that the active participle is formed from 3-lettered verbs (form I) by following the pattern (فاعل), for example (عامل…
Active participle in Arabic Posted by aziza on Jun 23, 2009
The active participle (اسم الفاعِل) is a very common and a very important form in Arabic. It is used a lot in both Standard and Colloquial Arabic, but it is used more extensively in colloquial dialects. It refers to the doer of the action of to one involved in the action, e.g. the active participle…