Tag Archives: prepositions
Word search and drills Posted by aziza on Nov 27, 2010
In this post, I have created an Arabic word search game for you. Can you find the 8 words below in the table? They are all names of Arab countries. 1- تونس 2- ليبيا 3- مصر 4- اليمن 5- الكويت 6- الأردن 7- عمان 8- قطر In the following section of the post, I present…
Using Arabic Prepositions with Question words Posted by aziza on Apr 7, 2010
Prepositions can be used with question words in Arabic just like English to make questions like from where? or where to? Examples of these questions can be found below: من أين أنت؟ “Where are you from?” إلى أين نذهب؟ “Where do we go?” إلى متى الانتظار؟ “Until when do you wait?” Certain prepositions like (من)…
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…
Usage of different Arabic particles Posted by aziza on Sep 3, 2009
I got a query recently about the usage of different particles that are made up of one letter only, e.g. ف، ل، ك، ب. In this post, I give some examples of their different uses. First of all, it should be noted that any particle that is made up of one letter only cannot stand…