{"id":927,"date":"2010-12-03T17:36:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:23:40","slug":"categorical-negation-in-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/categorical-negation-in-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Categorical Negation in Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The negative particle (\u0644\u0627) is typically used to negate verbal sentences in the present tense. In this way, it is used before the present tense verb to negate it, e.g.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0634\u0631\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062d\u0648\u0644.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not drink alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is another use of (\u0644\u0627) for categorical negation (\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0641\u064a\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0633). In this way, (\u0644\u0627) negates the meaning of the proposition categorically, e.g.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u062d\u062f \u063a\u0627\u0626\u0628.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is absent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0633\u0641\u0631 \u0628\u062f\u0648\u0646 \u062a\u0630\u0643\u0631\u0629.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo travelling without tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0634\u064a\u0621 \u064a\u0647\u0645.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this construction, (\u0644\u0627) must be followed by an indefinite noun, and it negates the meaning of the sentence completely and categorically.<\/p>\n<p>Now, try to translate these sentences into English.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0645\u0639\u0644\u0645\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0641.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u062c\u0631 \u0628\u0644\u0627 \u0639\u0645\u0644.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0642\u0644\u0645 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0642\u064a\u0628\u0629.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0645\u0641\u062a\u0627\u062d \u0644\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0628.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0627 \u0625\u0644\u0647 \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The negative particle (\u0644\u0627) is typically used to negate verbal sentences in the present tense. In this way, it is used before the present tense verb to negate it, e.g. \u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0634\u0631\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062d\u0648\u0644. \u201cI do not drink alcohol.\u201d There is another use of (\u0644\u0627) for categorical negation (\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0641\u064a\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0633). In this way, (\u0644\u0627) negates&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/categorical-negation-in-arabic\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8304,12868,109],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-arabic-grammar","tag-categorical-negation","tag-negative"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}