Lesson 50– الدَّرْسُ الْخَمْسُونَ
Verbal Nouns - أَسْمَاءُ الأَفْعَال
Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ
- This is lesson fifty of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In this lesson we will study another type of Arabic indeclinable nouns which we discussed in Lesson 25: Declinable and Indeclinable Words, specifically in part 4.
- We learnt that there are six types of Arabic indeclinable nouns, as follows:
Translation | Example | indeclinable nouns |
I, you, he | ||
This, these | Demonstrative nouns (Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 6, Lesson 7, Lesson 13, Lesson 14, Lesson 18, and Lesson 24) | |
What, where | Interrogative nouns (Lesson 29) | |
Who | ||
No matter what, whenever | The conditional words (Lesson 49) | |
Hush, ah | Verbal nouns (this lesson) |
- We will learn the meaning of the verbal noun and the difference between it and the verb in Arabic, and why we use it in Arabic.
- We will also discuss the three types of verbal nouns, which are as follows:
Translation | Sentence | Meaning | Example | type |
There is a great difference between the right and the wrong | شَتَّانَ بَيْنَ الحَقِّ والبَاطِلِ. /shattāna bayna al-ħaqqi wal-bāŧili/ | There is great different (between) | /shattāna/ = /baξuda/ | Noun of past verb |
Fie upon you and what you say | أُفٍّ لَكُمْ، وَلِمَا تَقُولُون. /uffin lakum wa limā taqūlūna/ | Ugh, become fed up with | /uffin/ = /atađaĵĵaru/ | Noun of present verb |
O boy, keep quiet and listen to the lesson | صَهْ يا غُلامُ، وَاسْمَع الدَّرْسَ. /ŝah yā ghulāmu wa ismaξ ad-darsa/ | Hush, keep quiet | / ŝah/ = /uskut/ | Noun of imperative verb |
- We will also learn the rules of the sentence that includes a verbal noun as well as the rules of these nouns and how we can form a sentence with a verbal noun instead of a verb.