Lesson 69 – الدَّرْسُ التَّاسِعُ والسِّتُّونَ
The Circumstantial object (Adverbs of Time and Place) - الْمَفْعُولُ فِيهِ
Indeclinable adverbs – الظُّروف المبنية
- We are still in lesson sixty nine of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In this part we will learn the second type of the adverbs, which is the indeclinable adverbs, In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing).
- We learnt earlier (in lesson 3) that the declinable noun is that which has different endings according to its position in the sentence, while the indeclinable noun is that which has only one ending that does not change whatever its position in the sentence is.
- The indeclinable adverbs are as follows:
a- Some of the indeclinable adverbs are adverbs of time only as in the following examples:
| Adverb | ||||
| Meaning | Now | Yesterday | Science | When |
| Adverb |
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| Meaning | when | never | While |
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b- Some other indeclinable adverbs are adverbs of place only as follows:
| Adverb | ||||
| Meaning | Less than | At one’s possess | ||
| Adverb | ||||
| Meaning | however | From wherever | There | |
c- Some other adverbs are used for both time and place, according to the meaning in the sentence. Consider the following examples:
- The following table shows more examples of the indeclinable adverbs:
| Indeclension sign | Adverb | Sentence | |
| English | Arabic | ||
| /fatħah/ | The family is cleaning the apartment now | ||
| /kasrah/ | I left work yesterday | ||
| /đammah/ | I didn’t go to work science a month | ||
| /fatħah/ | My friend is asking where the exam is | ||
| /sukūn/ | My wife slept while the child is still awake | ||
| /đammah/ | I never blasphemed my parents | ||
| /sukūn/ | When the war broke out I was absent | ||
| /sukūn/ | Othman has a big library | ||
| /sukūn/ | Allah taught him knowledge from Him | ||
| /fatħah/ | Take the book | ||
| /sukūn/ | When the two teams will play | ||
| /fatħah/ | Wherever you go, there is your livelihood | ||
| /fatħah/ | Omar came between midday and afternoon | ||
| /fatħah/ | I live between the hospital and university | ||
| /đammah/ | I pray whenever I hear the call | ||
| /đammah/ | I wake up early whenever I pray the dawn | ||
| /fatħah/ | I woke up with the sunrise | ||
| /fatħah/ | I learnt with the great scientist | ||