One day Katherine protested, I will never know the difference between mosque and university in Arabic! Why are they so confusing? Later on the same day, another student translated modern as event, and again he was very frustrated with the similarity between both words!<\/p>\n
Arabic is a highly derivational language where most content words, i.e. nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are derived form roots, mostly from 3-lettered roots. In this post, I present some derivatives of the two roots that were confusing to my students (\u062c \u0645 \u0639) and (\u062d \u062f \u062b)<\/p>\n
\u062c\u0645\u0639 = gathered<\/p>\n
\u062c\u0645\u0651\u0639 = collected<\/p>\n
\u062a\u062c\u0645\u0651\u0639 = came together<\/p>\n
\u0627\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0639 = got together (convened, met)<\/p>\n
\u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639 = mosque (also \u0645\u0633\u062c\u062f means mosque)<\/p>\n
\u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639\u0629 = university<\/p>\n
\u0645\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0639 = society<\/p>\n
\u0627\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0627\u0639 = meeting<\/p>\n
\u0627\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0627\u0639\u064a = social<\/p>\n
\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0639\u0629 = Friday<\/p>\n
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\u062d\u062f\u062b (v) = happened, occurred<\/p>\n
\u062d\u062f\u062b (n) = event<\/p>\n
\u062d\u0627\u062f\u062b = accident<\/p>\n
\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b = new, modern<\/p>\n
\u062d\u062f\u0651\u062b = told<\/p>\n
\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0651\u062b = spoke<\/p>\n
\u062a\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b = modernization, renewing<\/p>\n
\u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u0627\u062b\u0629 = modernization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One day Katherine protested, I will never know the difference between mosque and university in Arabic! Why are they so confusing? Later on the same day, another student translated modern as event, and again he was very frustrated with the similarity between both words! Arabic is a highly derivational language where most content words, i.e…<\/p>\n