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Mavje
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 Message 1 of 3
13 December 2012 at 11:07pm | IP Logged 
Hello guys once again!

Now I'm facing a different problem ... nominal sentences have been my worst nightmare
ever since! Seriosuly, I always mess up , with all those 'hada', 'hadihi' , if i t should
be with -al or without ...
Do you know, perhaps, where I could find a nice explanation on this area of grammar?
Perhaps some grammar book, websites or even a piece of advice?
I'd be really greateful :)

Regards,
Wojtek
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JohannaNYC
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14 December 2012 at 4:55am | IP Logged 
I'm just a beginner myself so I can't help. However if you join the TAC 2013 Middle
Eastern
team
our team godmother might be able to help you as she's a native speaker.
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mahasiswa
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14 December 2012 at 5:34am | IP Logged 
I really like Wightwick and Gaafar's Essentials of Arabic Grammar, which has a very simple explanation:

هذا كتاب (This is a book)
هذا الكتاب (This book)
The first is a sentence, the second is not.

You need to add a pronoun, in this case هو, if you want to say the sentence "This is the book":
هذا هو الكتاب

Of course, the Arab grammarians have a word for this, too: جملة اسمية. Using this in Google allowed me to
find this Arabic language learning
blog
which says the same thing, although in a different and somewhat difficult way, since the
three examples at the end of the article are not all sentences, only the last one is.

Edited by mahasiswa on 14 December 2012 at 5:34am



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