{"id":100,"date":"2009-09-01T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-06-19T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:34:59","slug":"expressing-similarity-in-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/expressing-similarity-in-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing Similarity in Arabic with Like or As"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following my previous post about comparison<\/a>, I received a question about how to express similarity in Arabic, and Niji contributed the answer. In this post, I explain more about similarity in Arabic. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are 2 particles that we can use to express similarity, i.e. (<\/span>\u0643\u0640<\/span>) and (<\/span>\u0645\u062b\u0644<\/span>). Both of them mean \u2018like\u2019 or \u2018as\u2019, and they are used to establish a relationship of similarity between 2 things or people, e.g.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0623\u0646\u062a \u0628\u0637\u0626 \u0643\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u062d\u0641\u0627\u0629.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are slow like a turtle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0637\u0627\u0631 \u0633\u0631\u064a\u0639 \u0643\u0627\u0644\u0631\u064a\u062d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe train is fast like wind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0637\u0628\u064a\u0628 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0647.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAhmed is a physician like his father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0648\u0627\u0644\u062f\u062a\u064a \u0635\u0628\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0648\u0623\u0646\u0627 \u0645\u062b\u0644\u0647\u0627.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother is patient, and I am like her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both <\/span>(<\/span>\u0643\u0640<\/span>) and (<\/span>\u0645\u062b\u0644<\/span>) are used in the same way to express similarity between two nouns, and they are in most of the cases interchangeable. The main difference between them is that we can use (<\/span>\u0645\u062b\u0644<\/span>) followed by a pronoun or a noun, but (<\/span>\u0643\u0640<\/span>) can only be followed by a noun. For example, only (<\/span>\u0645\u062b\u0644<\/span>) can be used in the sentence below.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0623\u0646\u0627 \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0645\u062b\u0644\u0647.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a student like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

To negate these statements, i.e. to express \u2018not like\u2019, we use (<\/span>\u0644\u064a\u0633<\/span>), for example:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0644\u064a\u0633 \u0637\u0648\u064a\u0644\u0627\u064b \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0647.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMohammed is a not tall like his father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0644\u0633\u062a \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0629 \u0645\u062b\u0644\u0643.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a student like you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following my previous post about comparison, I received a question about how to express similarity in Arabic, and Niji contributed the answer. In this post, I explain more about similarity in Arabic. There are 2 particles that we can use to express similarity, i.e. (\u0643\u0640) and (\u0645\u062b\u0644). Both of them mean \u2018like\u2019 or \u2018as\u2019, and…<\/p>\n

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