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Genitive Construction in Arabic Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Oct 30, 2017
Genitive Construction (GC), known as iDHaafah إِضَافَة, is usually encountered at the early stages of learning Arabic. The main reason for this is that a genitive construction, which is a phrasal (i.e. more than one word) structure can be used as a faa‘il فَاعِل ‘subject’ or a maf‘uul مَفْعُول ‘object’ of the sentence in lieu…
Definite Nouns:(6) Al-Modaaf المضاف Posted by Fisal on Apr 4, 2011
Today, we will be introduced to the last two types of definite nouns. (6) The Indefinite Noun Added to a definite المضاف إلى معرفة Al Modaaf is an indefinite noun that is made definite because it is added to a definite noun that comes after. Both the Modaaf and the definite noun that follows form…
Tricky Dual (both) Posted by aziza on May 23, 2010
Dual can be very tricky at times. The word (كِلا) in Arabic means ‘both’ in English. It is used mainly as part of an idaafa construction, either with a definite noun (كِلا الطالبان) ‘both students’ or a pronoun, e.g. (كِلاهما) ‘both of them’. Many people erroneously use (كِلا) with both masculine and feminine, without realizing…