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Arabic Subordinating Conjunctions Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Apr 19, 2018
A subordinating conjunction is a word that connects two simple and unequal clauses—simple as they only have one verb and unequal as one can stand alone (called main) while the other (called subordinate) needs to be linked to another to be fully meaningful. In Arabic, subordinating conjunctions can be single-word, two-word, or three-word. This post…
One Letter Words in Arabic Posted by aziza on Dec 23, 2009
In Arabic, there is a limited number of words that are made up of one letter only, for example (و) ‘and’, and (ف) which is used to link sentences explaining each other. In addition, there are some prepositions, e.g. (ب) ‘with/by’, (ك) ‘as/like’, (ل) ‘to/for’. What we should note about all these is that they…