Lesson 65 – الدَّرْسُ الْخَامِسُ والسِّتُّونَ
The pro agent - نَـائِــب الفَاعِــل
Types of the pro agent – أَنْوَاع نائب الفاعل
- We are still in lesson sixty five of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In the previous lesson we studied the types of the Arabic doer. We understood that the Arabic doer can be one of the types shown in the following examples (for revision purpose): (please read from right to left).
Picture | The type of the doer | The doer | Example | No. | |
English | Arabic | ||||
| Explicit noun | The sky (it) rained | /amŧarat as samā’u/ | 1 | |
| The house fell down because of the earthquake | /saqaŧa al baytu min al hizzati/ | 2 | ||
| Attached pronoun
| Do you like football? | هَلْ تُحِبُّونَ كُرَةَ القَدَمِ؟ /hal tuħibbūna kurata al qadami/ | 3 | |
| Did you travel to Egypt? | /hal sāfarta ilā miŝra/ | 4 | ||
| Latent pronoun
| Said visited Egypt a year ago. | سَعِيدٌ زَارَ مِصْرَ قَبْلَ عامٍ /saξīdun zāra miŝra qabla ξāmin/ | 5 | |
| Saida wrote her homework | /saξīdatu katabat wāĵibahā/ | 6 | ||
| Explicit original noun | Your win of the prize pleases me (I’m happy that you won the prize) | يُسْعِدُنِي فَوْزُكَ بالجائِزَةِ /yusξidunī fawzuka bil ĵā’izati/ | 7 | |
| Implicit noun | Seeing you (to see you) frustrated makes me sad | 8 |
- The types of the pro agent are the same as the types of the agent which are in the above mentioned table.
- The following table shows the types of the pro agent with examples:
Picture | The pro agent | Example | Type of the pro agent | |
English | Arabic | |||
| The bottle was filled with water | /muliξat az zuĵāĵatu mā’an/ | Explicit noun | |
| The film will be shown this week | سَيُعْرَضُ الفِيلْمُ هَذَا الأُسْبُوعَ /sayuξrađu al filmu hādhā al usbūξi/ | ||
| I was asked a difficult question | /su’iltu su’ālan ŝaξban/ | Attached pronoun | |
| Indeed, we were extremely oppressed | لَقَدْ ظُلِمْنَا ظُلْمًا شَدِيدًا /laqad dhulimnā dhulman shadīdan/ | ||
| The bottle was broken yesterday | /az zuĵāĵatu kusirat amsi/ | Latent pronoun | |
| The boy was obliged to travel | الوَلَدُ أُكْرِهَ على السَّفَرِ /al waladu ukriha ξala as safari/ | ||
| The memorization of the text is hoped | Yurĵā ħifdhu an naŝŝi/ | Explicit original noun | |
| To memorize the text is preferred | /yfađđalu an taħfadha an naŝŝa/ | Implicit original noun |
- In the above mentioned examples we notice that the pro agent can be an explicit noun (الزُّجَاجَةُ - الفِيلْمُ ), an attached pronoun (تُ - نَا), a latent pronoun, an explicit original noun (حِفْظ), or an implicit original noun (أنْ تَحْفَظَ).