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Arabic Prepositions 3 Posted by aziza on Nov 21, 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. على means on/over…
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…
Shapes in Arabic Posted by aziza on Sep 26, 2016
In this post, I present a video that introduces the shapes vocabulary in Arabic. Watch the video, repeat the words and learn them. At the end of the video, there are some questions to test whether you have learnt the words. السلام عليكم اليوم سوف نتعلم الأشكال باللغة العربية هل أنت مستعد؟ هيا نبدأ! Hello…
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)…
Inna and its sisters, Answers Posted by aziza on Mar 28, 2016
Inna and its sisters (إن وأخواتها) are إنَّ وأنَّ ، ولكنَّ ، وكأنَّ وليتَ ولعلَّ After Inna and its sisters (إن وأخواتها), the subject of the nominal sentence (اسم إن) become accusative (منصوب), and the predicate (خبر إن) remains nominative (مرفوع). In this post, I present the answers of the exercises presented earlier to practice…
Practice Inna and its sisters Posted by aziza on Mar 27, 2016
Inna and its sisters (إن وأخواتها) is a group of particles in Arabic that are usually followed by a nominal sentence. The nominal sentence takes special vowelling after Inna and its sisters (إن وأخواتها). Inna and its sisters (إن وأخواتها) are إنَّ وأنَّ ، ولكنَّ ، وكأنَّ وليتَ ولعلَّ By default, a nominal sentence has…