Lesson 66 – الدَّرْسُ السَّادِسُ والسِّتُّونَ

The direct object - الْمَـفْـعُـول بِـه

Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ

• This is lesson sixty six of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• In this lesson we return to the active voice sentence to study the Arabic direct object. The direct object is a dispensable (optional) part of the verbal sentence. We studied the two indispensable parts of the verbal sentence in many lessons as follows:
  a- The active verbal sentence:
     1- We learnt the active verb in lessons (28 to 40).
     2-And we studied the doer (the agent) in lesson 64.
  b- The passive verbal sentence:
     1-We learnt the passive form of the verb in lesson 34.
     2-And we learnt the pro agent in lesson 65.
• From this lesson we will start studying the dispensable parts of the verbal sentence.
• The dispensable parts of the verbal sentence are called the objects (المفاعيل /al mafāξīl/). All the objects are originally in the accusative case.
• The direct object is the first one of the objects that we will study In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing).
• In this lesson we will learn the following:
  - What the direct object is, what the types of the direct object are. We will study that it can be (mostly) one of two types as follows:

• We will also learn the original order of the verbal sentence as follows:

• We will also study the cases in which the order of the sentence is changed as follows:

• We will also learn the situations in which we omit the direct object. This omission must be under a condition that the meaning of the direct object is understandable from the context.