Nouns acting as verbs and onomatopoeia (interjections) / أَسْماء الأَفْعال وَأَسْماء الأَصْوات
The interjection in Arabic can be a noun acting as onomatopoeia or a noun acting as a verb without accepting its signs or conjugation with…
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Verbs of praise and blame / أَفْعال المَدْح والذَمّ
Verbs of praise and blame in Arabic are frozen verbs (أَفْعال جامِدة) in the masculine singular form, which means they are usually not conjugated and…
Emphatic “nūn” and emphatic “lām” / نُون التَوْكِيد ولام التَوْكِيد
There are two particles used as suffixes to verbs to express emphasis in Arabic or to give an assertive tone to a certain action. Those…
Quadriliteral verbs / الأَفْعال الرُباعِيّة
Simple form / الفِعْل الرُباعي المُجَرّد Quadriliteral verbs in Arabic (الأَفْعال الرُباعية), possess four letters in their root (the pattern فَعْلَلَ) differentiating them from the…
The exclamation / التَعَجّب
There are two ways to convey exclamation in Arabic that express astonishment toward a person or an object: The standard exclamation / التَعَجّب القِياسي The…
Rules for writing the hamza / أَحْكام الهَمْزة
We know there are two types of hamza in Arabic, hamzatu l-waṣl (هَمْزَة الوَصْل) on one hand and hamzatu l-qaṭʿ (هَمْزةُ القَطْع) on the other…
The particle “qad” / قَد
Particle قد qad in Arabic is a particle that is only used with verbs in the perfect and imperfect tense. The verb cannot be put…
Verbal nouns / المَصادِر
The term المَصْدَر, or ‘the source’ in English, is a noun that originates from the verb and signifies the action, quality or condition described by…
The noun patterns / أَنْماط الأسْماء
There are different patterns for nouns in Arabic with the most prominent ones being: Because the verbal noun (المَصْدَر) has many patterns itself we won’t…
Kāda and its sisters / كادَ وَأَخَواتُها
Unlike regular verbs, ‘Kāda and its sisters’ (كاد وَأَخَواتُها) are termed as semi-verbs (أَفْعال ناقِصة) since they do not possess an agent/doer (فاعِل) in their…