Tag Archives: opposites
More opposites Posted by aziza on Jun 21, 2010
In this post, I present more opposites in response to a request from one of the readers. These opposites have to do with describing people, how they look or feel, for example: أنا متفائل. لماذا أنت متشائم؟ “I am optimistic! Why are you so pessimistic?” كنت متعبة من الرحلة ولكني الآن مستريحة. “I was tired…
Arabic Adjectives and their Opposites Posted by aziza on Mar 8, 2010
In this post, I present some simple adjectives and their opposites. It is also handy to know the word that can be used to negate adjectives, more or less like the English prefix, un- which is (غير). We use it before an adjective to negate it, e.g. (معروف) means ‘well-known’, while (غير معروف) means ‘un-known…