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Arabic Prepositions1 Posted by aziza on Nov 14, 2016
Arabic Prepositions (حروف الجر) are an interesting and a challenging topic for learners of Arabic. When I mark students’ essays, I notice many mistakes with prepositions. In this post, I highlight the meanings and usage of two of the Arabic prepositions; give examples and some exercises on the selected prepositions. عن has a number of…
Arabic Prepositions Posted by aziza on Nov 11, 2016
Arabic Prepositions (حروف الجر) are an interesting and a challenging topic for learners of Arabic. When I mark students’’ essays, I notice many mistakes with prepositions. In this post, I highlight the meanings and usage of three of the Arabic prepositions; give examples and some exercises on the selected prepositions. مِنَ (from) indicates the starting…
Practice agreement in Arabic Posted by aziza on Oct 16, 2016
In this post, we practice subject-verb agreement and dual agreement in Arabic. Complete the sentences with the right form of the verb in brackets then change the subject of each sentence into dual. صديقتي ———— من الجامعة السنة القادمة. (تخرّج) أخي ———— في جامعة أوكسفورد الآن. (عمل) صديقي العربي ———— في جامعة لندن العام الماضي…
Verb forms I, II, III Posted by aziza on Jun 20, 2016
In Arabic, verbs appear in different forms (patterns) that depend on the root system. The roots of verbs appear in different forms that have the same basic meaning, but different forms give additional meaning to the basic meaning of the verb. In this post, verb forms I, II and II are explained with some examples…
The Diminutive Posted by aziza on Jun 10, 2016
The diminutive (اسم التصغير) is a form used to refer to a smaller or diminishing form of certain nouns and adjectives. It follows the pattern (فُعَيْل) For example, The diminutive of (كتاب) is (كُتَيب) The diminutive of (عبد) is (عُبَيد) The diminutive of (مهر) is (مُهَیر) The diminutive of (جبل) is (جُبَيل) The diminutive of…
Verb Conjugation Exercise Posted by aziza on May 23, 2016
In this exercise, I present an exercise on conjugating verbs. Complete the sentences below with the verbs given in brackets. معظم أصدقائي ————– معي في نفس السنة ولكن مها ————- بعد سنتين. (تخرج) الطلاب —————- عن المحاضرة بسبب الثلج أمس. (تأخر) (أنتم) —————- أن تسافروا معنا اليوم. (أراد) كل جرائد اليوم —————- عن الحادث. (تكلم)…
Verb Determiners in Arabic Posted by Fisal on Mar 2, 2016
Ahlan أهــْــلاً , Arabic lovers! In the post Basics of Arabic Grammar, we learnt that Arabic parts of speech are mainly; a noun, a verb or a particle. But how can we differentiate between these parts of speech? In a previous post, we learnt about the Noun Determiners and I am sure that all of…