Lesson 77 – الدَّرْسُ السَّابِعُ والسَّبْعونَ

Types of Prepositions - أَقْسام حُرُوف الْجَرِّ

Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ

• This is lesson seventy seven of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• We learnt in the previous lesson (no. 76) which covers the meanings of the Arabic prepositions, we clearly understood that the preposition does not have a certain meaning as a single word, rather its meaning appears only in the structure, e.g. فِي الْبِيْتِ - عَلَى المَكْتَبِ.
• We also learnt the eight most commonly used prepositions in detail, and we studied briefly the other nine prepositions.
• The prepositional phrase (quasi sentence) which is formed of the preposition and the following noun is not a complete sentence, rather it forms a dispensable part of the verbal or the nominal sentence.
• The preposition has to be attached (related) to a verb or a derived noun in the sentence, because the preposition links the genitive noun which falls after it with the verb or the derived noun before it.
• The attachment of the preposition can be either mentioned or supposed as in the following examples:

• We now clearly understand that the prepositional phrase has to be related to a certain word of the sentence (the attachment), which can be a noun or a verb.
• Sometimes the preposition is augmented or similar to an augmented one, in these two cases the prepositional phrase does not need to be related to a preceding attachment.
• Therefore we will study in this lesson the three types of prepositions as follows:

1-    The original preposition (which has to be related to a preceding attachment).

2-    The augmented preposition (which does not need to be related to an attachment, and can be omitted)

3-    The similar to an augmented preposition (which is not related to a preceding attachment, but cannot be omitted from the sentence)