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More opposites Posted by 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…

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Arabic Adjectives and their Opposites Posted by 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…

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