Lesson 33– الدَّرْسُ الثَّالِثُ وَالثَّلاثُونَ

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs – الفِعْلُ المُتَعَدِّي والْفِعْلُ اللازِمُ

Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ

• This is lesson thirty three of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• We studied the types of sentences in Arabic, namely the Arabic nominal sentence that begins (originally) with a noun and the Arabic verbal sentence that starts (originally) with a verb.
• The verbal sentence is made up of two main components: the verb + the doer. We will study this in detail later in this lesson, but now let’s see the following two examples.
• In case the sentence includes only these main components and does not need a direct object, as is the case in the two examples below, then the verb is called an intransitive verb "فِعْلٌ لازِمٌ".

• The sentence may contain a verb, a doer and a noun which suffers the action of the verb. In this case, the verb is called a transitive verb "فِعلٌ مُتَعَدٍّ", as in the following two examples:

• In Arabic, there are three cases of transitive verbs as follows:

1. Transitive verbs with one direct object.
2. Transitive verbs with two direct objects.
3. Transitive verbs with three direct objects.