Tag Archives: Vocabulary
Listening comprehension in Arabic – answers Posted by aziza on Nov 15, 2012
In this post, I present the transcription of the news item presented earlier and the answers to the questions. Transcription: أوضحت دراسة نفطية متخصصة أن السعودية تتصدر دول العالم من حيث احتياطي النفط، إذ تستحوذ على ما نسبته 38.7 في المئة من الاحتياطي العالمي، وأضافت أنه بإمكان المملكة أن تستمر في الإمدادات النفطية لمدة ثمانين…
Arabic Nouns of Place Posted by aziza on Oct 14, 2012
ظرف المكان is a special category of nouns in Arabic used in a sentence to denote place. It is a special type of noun in Arabic, but it can be understood as an adverbial of place, as it gives the place in which a certain action takes place. It is the word that answers the…
An Introduction مُقَدِّمَة Posted by jesa on Oct 13, 2012
“Record it, I am an Arab and my identity card number is 50,000”, (سَجِّل أنا عَربي ورَقِم بطاقَتي خَمسون أَلف) says the great Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish (محمود دَرويش) in his famous poem Record it, I am an Arab. And I say to you too: record this, I am an Arab. In my blog posts…
listening comprehension exercise, answers Posted by aziza on Sep 28, 2012
In this post, I present the answers of the listening comprehension exercise presented earlier. Transcription of the text: دشّن العاهل السعودي، الملك عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز، أول سيارة سعودية تحمل اسم “غزال واحد”، وهي نموذج أول مطور من سيارات مرسيدس بنز طراز C .”غزال واحد” سيارة كبيرة الحجم وتناسب أذواق السعوديين الذين يتجهون للسيارات الضخمة،…
listening comprehension exercise Posted by aziza on Sep 28, 2012
Watch to the following video and use the information presented in it to answer the questions that follow: Useful vocabulary: دشّن = launched عاهل = king نموذج = model مطور = developed/advanced حجم = size أذواق = taste ضخمة = huge طول = length عرض = width معرض = exhibition Answer the following…
Exercises on relative pronouns, answers Posted by aziza on Sep 24, 2012
In the previous post, I presented exercises on the relative pronouns (الأسماء الموصولة) in Arabic. الذي = this (sing. masc.) التي = this (sing. fem.) اللذان = these (dual. masc. nom.) اللذين= these (dual. masc. acc./gen.) اللتان = these (dual. fem. nom.) اللتين = these (dual. fem. acc./gen.) الذين = these (plur. masc.) اللاتي = these…
Persian words in Egyptian Arabic Posted by aziza on Aug 25, 2012
In the previous post, I presented some words that are of Persian or Farsi origin that are currently used in Arabic. These words are treated like any other Arabic word, and most Arabs use them without even realizing that they are not originally Arabic. In this post, I present some more words that are…