Lesson 81 – الدَّرْسُ الحادِي والثَّمانون

The followers (4) The confirmative - التَّــوَابِع (٤) الـتَّـوْكِيد

Types of Confirmative – أَنْوَاع التَّوْكِيد

• We are still in lesson eighty one of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• There are two types of Arabic confirmative as follows:

1-    The oral confirmative:

• This type affirms the reality of its followed noun, by repeating its pronunciation, i.e. repeating the same noun, verb, phrase, or sentence. This assures that we mean the followed part in reality without exaggeration or reticence (figuration or metaphor).

• Sometimes the confirmed noun is an attached pronoun, or latent pronoun. In this case when we want to repeat it we have to mention the separate form of the pronoun, as in the following examples:

• The oral confirmative can also be a verb as in the following examples:

• The confirmative can also be used to confirm particles and preposition, as in the following examples:

2-    The moral confirmative:

• This type affirms the reality of its followed noun, by repeating its meaning, i.e. by another noun which means: itself, himself, ourselves, etc. This also assures that we mean the followed part in reality without exaggeration or reticence (figuration or metaphor). 
• There are some Arabic words can make the function of the moral confirmative as follows:

• Consider the following examples:

• From the above mentioned examples we notice that the moral confirmative has to follow the confirmed noun in number (singular, dual, or plural). Therefore there are three forms of moral confirmative according to its number as follows: