Tag Archives: Arabic grammar
Arabic Nouns: Case Posted by Fisal on Mar 27, 2015
Ahlan أهــْــلاً , Arabic lovers! Today, we go back to Arabic Grammar. We are going to study the three cases of Arabic Nouns. Any Arabic noun falls into one of three categories or cases: The Nominative Case حــالــة الــرفــع: It means that the noun is marked by a Dammah ضــمــّــة (or an equivalent) on the…
Reading Comprehension Answers: Fear Posted by Fisal on Mar 13, 2015
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Here are the answers to the last reading comprehension exercise about fear and the biggest fear for humans in the modern life; that is the fear of being poor. To view the exercise and the questions again, please click here. الإجـــابـــات Answers اِســمُ الــمــَــرَضِ الــذي تــَــتــَــحــَــدَّثُ عــَــنــْــهُ الــقــِــطــْــعــَــة هــو الــفــقــر…
Exclamation in Arabic Posted by aziza on Feb 25, 2015
In this post, I explain how to express exclamation in Arabic (أسلوب التعجب). In Arabic, we start exclamatory sentences with (ما), then it is followed by the (أفعل) form of the adjective, and then object you complain about, e.g. البيت كبير. (The house is big.) ما أكبر البيت! (How big the house is!) البنت…
Sibawayh Posted by aziza on Dec 19, 2014
In this post, we get to know a very famous grammarian of the Arabic language. He is the author of the first grammar of Arabic. Abū Bishr ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar Al-Baṣrī (أبو بشر عمرو بن عثمان بن قنبر البصري), commonly known as Sībawayh (سيبويه), was an influential grammarian of the Arabic language. His seminal work…
Index of Arabic Grammar Posted by Fisal on Oct 12, 2014
Ahlan Arabic lovers! Since Arabic grammar is giving some headache to most non-Arabic speakers, today’s post will be devoted to recycling Arabic grammar. Here, I will publish the topics and links of all the grammar posts that I have written since March, 2011 in the same chronicle order they were posted. I hope…
The Verbal Sentence (Part 7) : The Passive Verb Gender Posted by Fisal on Jul 23, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! I know Arabic grammar is giving you some headache especially about the gender of (passive) verbs that must agree in number and gender with the subject or the deputy agent in passive sentences. Such headache does exist in all languages and Arabic is no exception. In the process of learning…
The present tense verb endings1 Posted by aziza on Jun 27, 2014
As explained in my previous post, there are three cases of the present tense verb, the default case, the imperfect (المرفوع), the subjunctive (المنصوب), and the jussive (المجزوم). The case of the verb depends on what precedes it. In this post, I explain the three cases of the present tense verb with suffix endings (ان،…