{"id":63,"date":"2009-06-12T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=63"},"modified":"2014-06-18T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:25:10","slug":"question-words-in-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/question-words-in-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Question words in Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Modern Standard Arabic, questions begin with question words. However, in some colloquial dialects like Egyptian, question words often appear at the end of the sentence, e.g. what is your name? in MSA (<\/span>\u0645\u0627<\/span><\/strong> \u0627\u0633\u0645\u0643<\/span>\u061f<\/span>), and in ECA (<\/span>\u0627\u0633\u0645\u0643 \u0625\u064a\u0647<\/strong><\/span>\u061f<\/span>). It is interesting to note also that question words differ from standard and colloquial and from one dialect to another. <\/span><\/p>\n

The table below gives questions words in Arabic and some examples of their use: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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What <\/span>(<\/span>\u0645\u0627<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u0645\u0643\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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What is your name?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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What <\/span>(<\/span>\u0645\u0627\u0630\u0627<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u0645\u0627\u0630\u0627 \u062a\u0641\u0639\u0644\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

What are you doing?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Who (<\/span>\u0645\u064e\u0646<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0645\u064e\u0646 \u0647\u0648\u061f <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Who is he?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Where (<\/span>\u0623\u064a\u0646<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0623\u064a\u0646 \u062a\u0633\u0643\u0646\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Where do you live?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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When (<\/span>\u0645\u062a\u0649<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u0645\u062a\u0649 \u064a\u0631\u062d\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0637\u0627\u0631\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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When does the train leave?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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How (<\/span>\u0643\u064a\u0641<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0643\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0631\u0648\u062c \u0645\u0646 \u0647\u0646\u0627\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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How to get out of here? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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How many (<\/span>\u0643\u0645<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0643\u0645 \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0627\u064b \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0635\u0644\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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How many students are there in the class?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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How much (<\/span>\u0628\u0643\u0645<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0628\u0643\u0645 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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How much is this book?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We have 2 words for what. The first one is (<\/span>\u0645\u0627<\/span><\/strong>) which is used when questions do not have a verb in them, i.e. the question is not about an action, e.g. what is your name? (<\/span>\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u0645\u0643\u061f<\/span><\/strong>). When questions have a verb, i.e. when they are about actions, we use (<\/span>\u0645\u0627\u0630\u0627<\/span><\/strong>), e.g. what are you doing? (<\/span>\u0645\u0627\u0630\u0627 \u062a\u0641\u0639\u0644\u061f<\/span><\/strong>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes\/No questions in Arabic begin with the question word <\/span>(<\/span>\u0647\u0644<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u0647\u0644 \u0623\u0646\u062a \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Are you Arab?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u0647\u0644 \u062a\u062f\u0631\u0633 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639\u0629\u061f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Do you study at university?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In Modern Standard Arabic, questions begin with question words. However, in some colloquial dialects like Egyptian, question words often appear at the end of the sentence, e.g. what is your name? in MSA (\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u0645\u0643\u061f), and in ECA (\u0627\u0633\u0645\u0643 \u0625\u064a\u0647\u061f). It is interesting to note also that question words differ from standard and colloquial and…<\/p>\n

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