Tag Archives: Arabic grammar
The Verbal Sentence (Part 6) – The Passive Verb Form Posted by Fisal on Jun 12, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today, we are going to continue our study of the verbal sentence. What we have learnt earlier about this type of sentence is as follows: 1- The Verbal Sentence 2- The Subject of the Verbal Sentence (Part 1) 3- The Subject of the Verbal Sentence (Part 2) 4- Subject-Verb Agreement in…
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…
The Verbal Sentence (Part 5) – The Passive Subject Posted by Fisal on Apr 25, 2014
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. We have also started discussing the subject-verb agreement; how the verb looks like with different subjects. All that was in the active…
Practice Arabic Grammar Posted by aziza on Mar 10, 2014
In this post, I present some exercises which you can use to practice basic Arabic grammar. You can scroll down to see the answers at the bottom of the page. 1- Edit the following passage by correcting 10 agreement errors. ماجدة بنت مصرية يسكن في مدينة نيويورك. والدها مصري يعملون في الأمم المتحد. ووالدتها أيضاً…
Practice the case marking system Posted by aziza on Jan 31, 2014
The case marking system (الإعراب) is the system of marking the end of a word with a vowel or a suffix according to its function in the sentence. It has been discussed in previous posts. Please follow the link below for an introuction to the case marking system. https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/the-case-marking-system/ In this post, I present a…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: World Teachers’ Day Posted by Fisal on Oct 29, 2013
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: فــِــي جــَــمــيــع أنــْـــحـــَــــاءِ الـعــَــالــَــمْ ، يــُـــوَفـــِّـــرُ الـتــَّــعــْـــلــيـــمُ الــجــَـــيــّــدُ الأمــَـــلَ والـوَعــَـــدَ بــِــمــُـــســْــــتـــَــــوى مــَـــعـــِـــيـــشـــَـــةٍ أفـــْـــضـــَــــلَ . و مــَـــعَ ذلـِـكَ ، فــَــلــَـــيــْــسَ مــِــنَ الـمـُــمـْــكـِــنِ أنْ يــَـــكــُـــونَ هــُــنــَـــاكَ تــَــعــْــلــيــمٌ جــَــيــّـــدٌ بــِــدُون وُجــُـــودِ مــُــعــَـــلــِّــمــيــنَ مــُــخــْـــلــِــصــيــنَ ومــُــؤَهــَّــلــِــيــنَ . والــمــُــعــَـــلـــّــمــُـــونَ هــُـــمْ أحــَــدِ…