Lesson 89 – الدَّرْسُ التَّاسِعُ والثَّمانون

The conditional sentence - أَسالِيبُ التَّحِيَّةِ، والاِعْتِذارِ

The Arabic styles of greetings – أَسالِيبُ التَّحِيَّةِ العَرَبِيَّةِ

• We are still in lesson eighty nine of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
• There is an Arabic common Islamic greeting that can be said in any time of the day.
• This greeting is used by most Muslims in all Islamic countries in Standard Arabic and also in all colloquial Arabic dialects. It is as follows (please read from right to left):

• It is also possible to prolong the above mentioned greeting or its answer as follows:

• In addition, there are many other greetings which are commonly used in Modern Standard Arabic. Following are some common of them:
• A morning greeting:

• The above mentioned morning greeting is equal for both masculine and feminine. Consider the following dialogue between two females:

• This greeting (صَباحُ الْخَيْرِ) in the grammar is considered a predicate related to an omitted subject, i.e. virtually it is supposed to be (هَذَا الصَّباحُ صَبَاحُ الْخَيْرِ) and this literally means (this morning is the morning of goodness. The answer (صَبَاحُ النُّورِ) literally means (it is the morning of light).
• An evening greeting:

• A welcome greeting:
• There are many welcoming words in Arabic as (أَهْلاً – أَهْلاً وسَهْلاً – مَرْحَبًا - مَرْحَبًا بِكَ - أَهْلاً بِكَ). All of these mean welcome, hello, etc. Consider the following dialogue:

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(2)

 (3)

• At Adel’s home:

• You may notice that all the welcome greetings are in the accusative case, because they are considered absolute objects or pro-absolute objects (lesson 67).