{"id":12263,"date":"2016-06-10T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2016-06-10T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T12:37:57","slug":"the-diminutive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/the-diminutive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diminutive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The diminutive (\u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0635\u063a\u064a\u0631) is a form used to refer to a smaller or diminishing form of certain nouns and adjectives. It follows the pattern (\u0641\u064f\u0639\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0644)<\/h3>\n<h3>For example,<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628) is (\u0643\u064f\u062a\u064e\u064a\u0628)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0639\u0628\u062f) is (\u0639\u064f\u0628\u064e\u064a\u062f)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0645\u0647\u0631) is (\u0645\u064f\u0647\u064e\u06cc\u0631)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u062c\u0628\u0644) is (\u062c\u064f\u0628\u064e\u064a\u0644)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0646\u0647\u0631) is (\u0646\u064f\u0647\u064e\u064a\u0631)<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0So, we understand from these examples that \u0643\u064c\u062a\u064a\u0628 is smaller than \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 and that \u062c\u0628\u064a\u0644 is smaller than \u062c\u0628\u0644<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive is also used to indicate closeness in time and space,<\/h3>\n<h3>For example,<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0642\u0628\u0644) is (\u0642\u064f\u0628\u064e\u064a\u0644)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u062a\u062d\u062a) is (\u062a\u064f\u062d\u064e\u064a\u062a)<\/h3>\n<h3>So, we understand from these examples that \u0642\u0628\u064a\u0644 is closer in time than \u0642\u0628\u0644 and that \u062a\u062d\u064a\u062a is closer in place than than \u062a\u062d\u062a<\/h3>\n<h3>Now, can you make the diminutive of the following words:<\/h3>\n<h3>\u0634\u062c\u0631\u0629 = tree<\/h3>\n<h3>\u0628\u0642\u0631\u0629 = cow<\/h3>\n<h3>\u0648\u0644\u062f = boy<\/h3>\n<h3>\u0633\u0642\u0641 = roof<\/h3>\n<h3>\u063a\u0631\u0641\u0629 = room<\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9241\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/06\/answer-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"answer\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Answer:<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0634\u062c\u0631\u0629) is (\u0634\u064f\u062c\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0631\u064e\u0629)<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0The diminutive of (\u0628\u0642\u0631\u0629) is (\u0628\u064f\u0642\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0631\u064e\u0629)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0648\u0644\u062f) is (\u0648\u064f\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0652\u062f)<\/h3>\n<h3>The diminutive of (\u0633\u0642\u0641) is (\u0633\u064f\u0642\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0641)<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0The diminutive of (\u063a\u0631\u0641\u0629) is (\u063a\u064f\u0631\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0641\u064e\u0629)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/answer-300x94.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>The diminutive (\u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0635\u063a\u064a\u0631) is a form used to refer to a smaller or diminishing form of certain nouns and adjectives. It follows the pattern (\u0641\u064f\u0639\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0644) For example, The diminutive of (\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628) is (\u0643\u064f\u062a\u064e\u064a\u0628) The diminutive of (\u0639\u0628\u062f) is (\u0639\u064f\u0628\u064e\u064a\u062f) The diminutive of (\u0645\u0647\u0631) is (\u0645\u064f\u0647\u064e\u06cc\u0631) The diminutive of (\u062c\u0628\u0644) is (\u062c\u064f\u0628\u064e\u064a\u0644) The diminutive of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/the-diminutive\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3525,6,13],"tags":[8304,428596,428597,428595],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic-language","category-grammar","category-vocabulary","tag-arabic-grammar","tag-arabic-morphology","tag-patterns","tag-the-diminutive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}