Lesson 81 – الدَّرْسُ الحادِي والثَّمانون
The followers (4) The confirmative - التَّــوَابِع (٤) الـتَّـوْكِيد
Types of Confirmative – أَنْوَاع التَّوْكِيد
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- There are two types of Arabic confirmative as follows:
1- The oral confirmative:
- This type affirms the reality of its followed noun, by repeating its pronunciation, i.e. repeating the same noun, verb, phrase, or sentence. This assures that we mean the followed part in reality without exaggeration or reticence (figuration or metaphor).
Picture | Structure | Example | ||
The confirmative | The confirmed | English | Arabic | |
| I ate the food, the food (really) | |||
| The manager, the manager travelled | |||
| I will go home, home. |
- Sometimes the confirmed noun is an attached pronoun, or latent pronoun. In this case when we want to repeat it we have to mention the separate form of the pronoun, as in the following examples:
Structure | Examples | ||
The confirmative | The confirmed | English | Arabic |
Go, you and your brothers | |||
Latent pronoun | Live in the flat, you and your wife | ||
Latent pronoun | He attended, he and those who was with him |
- The oral confirmative can also be a verb as in the following examples:
Picture | Structure | Examples | |||
The confirmative | The confirmed | English | Arabic | ||
| The child slept, he slept | ||||
| The enemies came, they came | ||||
| I ate, I ate the bread | ||||
- The confirmative can also be used to confirm particles and preposition, as in the following examples:
Structure | Example | ||
The confirmative | The confirmed | English | Arabic |
I do not never reveal the secret | |||
Yes, yes, this is my brother |
2- The moral confirmative:
- This type affirms the reality of its followed noun, by repeating its meaning, i.e. by another noun which means: itself, himself, ourselves, etc. This also assures that we mean the followed part in reality without exaggeration or reticence (figuration or metaphor).
- There are some Arabic words can make the function of the moral confirmative as follows:
Arabic | ||||
Selves (eyes) | Self (eye) | Selves | Self (in person) | English |
Arabic | ||||
Both (feminine) | Both (masculine) | All | All | English |
- Consider the following examples:
Picture | Structure | Examples | ||
The confirmative | The confirmed | English | Arabic | |
| The manager talked, him self | |||
| The student came in person | |||
| I saw the Imam himself | |||
| I went to the university itself | |||
| The students came themselves | |||
| These are the criminals themselves | |||
| The bomb killed the visitors, all of them. | |||
| I ate the two apples, both of them | |||
| The two towers fell down, both of them |
- From the above mentioned examples we notice that the moral confirmative has to follow the confirmed noun in number (singular, dual, or plural). Therefore there are three forms of moral confirmative according to its number as follows:
Number | Arabic | English |
Singular | Himself (in person) | |
Dual | Both | |
Plural | Themselves | |
All of them |