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

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Explicit noun

السَماءُ

The sky (it) rained

أَمْطَرَتِ السَماءُ

/amŧarat as samā’u/

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البَيْتُ

The house fell down because of the earthquake

سَقَطَ البَيْتُ مِن الهِزَّةِ

/saqaŧa al baytu min al hizzati/

2

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Attached pronoun

 

واو الجماعة

Do you like football?

هَلْ تُحِبُّونَ كُرَةَ القَدَمِ؟

/hal tuħibbūna kurata al qadami/

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تاء الفاعل

Did you travel to Egypt?

هَلْ سافَرْتَ إلَى مِصْرَ ؟

/hal sāfarta ilā miŝra/

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Latent pronoun

 

(هُو)

Said visited Egypt a year ago.

سَعِيدٌ زَارَ مِصْرَ قَبْلَ عامٍ

/saξīdun zāra miŝra qabla ξāmin/

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(هِي)

Saida wrote her homework

سَعِيدَةُ كَتَبَتْ وَاجِبَها

/saξīdatu katabat wāĵibahā/

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Explicit original noun

فَوْزُكَ

Your win of the prize pleases me (I’m happy that you won the prize)

يُسْعِدُنِي فَوْزُكَ بالجائِزَةِ

/yusξidunī fawzuka bil ĵā’izati/

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Implicit noun

أَنْ أَرَاكَ

Seeing you (to see you) frustrated makes me sad

يَحْزُنُنِي أَنْ أَرَاكَ يائِسًا

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  • 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

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الزُّجَاجَةُ

The bottle was filled with water

مُلِئَتِ الزُّجَاجَةُ مَاءً

/muliξat az zuĵāĵatu mā’an/

Explicit noun

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الفِيلْمُ

The film will be shown this week

سَيُعْرَضُ الفِيلْمُ هَذَا الأُسْبُوعَ

/sayuξrađu al filmu hādhā al usbūξi/

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تُ

I was asked a difficult question

سُئِلْتُ سُؤَالاً صَعْبًا

/su’iltu su’ālan ŝaξban/

Attached pronoun

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نَا

Indeed, we were extremely oppressed

لَقَدْ ظُلِمْنَا ظُلْمًا شَدِيدًا

/laqad dhulimnā dhulman shadīdan/

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هِي

The bottle was broken yesterday

الزُّجاجَةُ كُسِرَتْ أَمْسِ

/az zuĵāĵatu kusirat amsi/

Latent pronoun

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هُوَ

The boy was obliged to travel

الوَلَدُ أُكْرِهَ على السَّفَرِ

/al waladu ukriha ξala as safari/

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حفظُ

The memorization of the text is hoped

يُرْجى حفظُ النَّصِ

Yurĵā ħifdhu an naŝŝi/

Explicit original noun

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أنْ تَحْفَظَ = الحِفْظ

To memorize the text is preferred

يُفَضَّلُ أنْ تَحْفَظَ النَّص

/yfađđalu an taħfadha an naŝŝa/

Implicit original noun