Lesson 42 – الدَّرْسُ الثَّاني والأرْبَعونَ
Questioning Words (2 of 3) – أدَوَات الاسْتِفْهام (٢ من ٣)
Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ
- This is lesson forty two of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In the previous lesson we studied four Arabic nouns out of the ten common questioning (interrogative) words, we are going to study four more of these nouns in this lesson, In-Shā’-Allâh. The nouns we will cover are the following:
- Please, remember that the interrogative (questioning) words are indeclinable. Most of these words are nouns, so they, originally, occupy the position of the subject in a nominal sentence. Two out of the ten interrogative words are particles. These particles will be studied in the following lesson In-Shā’-Allâh.
- We learnt earlier that each one of these interrogative nouns or particles has a function and a meaning.
- The following table summarizes the second four interrogative (questioning) words and an example for each of them:
Picture | Answer | Example Question | Interrogative word | |||
English | Arabic | English | Arabic | English | Arabic | |
| I wake up at 7 o’clock. | أَسْتَيْقِظُ السَّاعَةَ السَّابِعَةَ. /Astayqiđhu as-sāξata as-sābiξata./ | When do you wake up? | /Matā tastayqiđhu?/ | When? | /Matā/ |
| I pray in the mosque. | /uŝallī fī al-masjidi./ | Where do you pray? | /Ayna tuŝallī?/ | Where? | /Ayna/ |
| It is cold today. | /al-ĵawwu bāridun al-yawma./ | How is the weather today? | /Kayfa al-ĵawwu al-yawma?/ | How? | /Kayfa/ |
| I am 30 years old. | /ξumri thalāthūna ξāman./ | How old are you? | /Kam ξumruk?/ | How many/ how much? | /Kam/ |
- In the following four parts we will study each one of the above mentioned interrogatives In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing), while part five will be for the exercises.
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