Tag Archives: Arabic grammar
The Verbal Sentence (Part 4) – Subject-Verb Agreement: Gender Posted by Fisal on Feb 3, 2013
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. We have also started discussing the subject-verb agreement; how the verb looks like with different subjects. We started with the subject-verb agreement…
Find and correct agreement errors Posted by aziza on Dec 8, 2012
In this post, I want you to find and correct agreement errors in the following phrases. You need to make sure that nouns and adjectives agree with each other. After you correct the phrases, scroll down to the bottom of the page to check the correct answers. 1- الشعوب الأوروبيون 2- الأرض الزراعي 3- طالبان ممتازات 4- …
Dual and masculine plural in idaafa Posted by aziza on Nov 28, 2012
Dual nouns in Arabic end in one of two suffixes (ان or ين), e.g. the dual of صديق is صديقان in the nominative case, and صديقين in the accusative and genitive cases. Masculine plural nouns in Arabic end in one of two suffixes (ون or ين), e.g. the masculine plural of مهندس is مهندسون in…
Reading Comprehension Exercise Posted by Fisal on Nov 23, 2012
Money and Happiness اِقــرأ الـقـطــعــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage then answer the questions أثــبــتَ الــبـــاحــثـــون خــطـــأ الــقـــولَ : بــأن الــســعـــادةَ لا تـــُــشــتــرى بــالــمـــال ؛ فــقـــد وجــــدوا عــلاقـــة قـــويـــة بــيـــن الــربــــح الــمـــادى وبــيـــن شـــُــعـــُـــور الــمــَـرءِ بــالــســـعـــادة والــصـــحـــة الــنــفـــســـيـــة وتــمــكــنـــوا مــن مــُــلاحـــظـــة تــحــســُّــن الــصــحـــة الــنــفـــســيــة لأى شــخــــص بــمــجـــرد أن يــربـــحَ الــقـــلــيــــلَ…
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…
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…