Tag Archives: Arabic grammar
The Fronted Predicate Posted by Fisal on Dec 23, 2011
The Fronted Predicate الخبر الـمـُـقــدَّم As we learned before that the general rule is that the Mubtada’ المبتدأ begins the nominal sentence. However, there are certain cases in which the predicate الخبر comes before the Mubtada’ and begins the nominal sentence. Today, we will be introduced to these cases. * Cases of the Fronted Predicate : 1)…
Reading Comprehension Answers Posted by Fisal on Nov 30, 2011
Here is the answer key to the past reading comprehension exercise أ ) أجب عن الأسئلة التالية : Answer the following questions 1- ما هو طريق الحياة المستقيمة ؟ What is the way to straightforward life ? – التعاون هو طريق الحياة المستقيمة 2- لماذا يعتبر التعاون من ضروريات الحياة ؟ Why…
Reading Comprehension Exercise Posted by Fisal on Nov 29, 2011
* اقرأ القطعة التالية ثم أجب عن الأسئلة : Read the following passage and then answer the questions التعاون طريق الحياة المستقيمة ولا يمكن للإنسان أن يعيش بدون التعاون .التعاون هو مساعدة الناس بعضهم بعضًا في الحاجات وفعل الخيرات , والتعاون من ضروريات الحياة إذ لا يمكن للفرد أن يقوم بكل أعباء هذه الحياة…
Arabic Prepositions (Part 1) حروف الجر Posted by Fisal on Sep 21, 2011
Prepositions are very important words in any language. Today, we are going to learn the Arabic prepositions and their meanings. Arabic prepositions are Mabni words كلمات مبنية which means that they mostly have a fixed pronunciation regardless of their position in the sentence. These nouns also inflect the noun that follows them and cause it to end…
More notes on gender Posted by aziza on Sep 17, 2011
To add to my previous remarks about masculine and feminine, there are some words that refer to the same thing, and they have different gender, e.g. there are two words for window in Arabic: (نافذة) which is feminine and (شباك) which is masculine, likewise there are two words for life/living (حياة) which is feminine and…
Some notes on gender Posted by aziza on Sep 15, 2011
Learning the gender of words in Arabic is often tricky to non-native speakers, as there is not an easy rule that tells us whether a word is masculine or feminine, and many rules have exceptions. One of the most useful rules is that words that end in ta’ marbouta (ة) are feminine, e.g. سميرة, أميرة…
Mabni Words الكلمات المبنية Posted by Fisal on Aug 13, 2011
In my previous post, we were introduced to the two grammatical terms of Mo’rab and Mabni. We learnt that a Mo’rab word is that which changes the harakah at its end and the Mabni word is that which is always the same with no change of harakah at its end. Most nouns and present…