Form Verbal Sentences in Arabic

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Hello, and thank you for watching VisiHow. Today, we will show you how to form a verbal sentence in the Arabic language. The verbal sentence is a sentence that contains a verb. It is a very common type of sentence. There are generally two ways that you can form a verbal sentence. We will show you the most common way, as well as perhaps the easiest way to accomplish this task.

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   We will be using the word order "Verb-Subject-Object", which is abbreviated as VSO

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   We will begin the sentence with a verb, followed by a subject, followed by the object. This will work for pretty much any verbal sentence.

   

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   We have the following two sentences in English, "I went to the airport" and "He studied in the university"

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   We can see in both of these examples that English begins it's verbal sentence with a subject

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   "I" and "He" are the subjects of these two sentences.

   

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   We then follow with a verb, as in the case of "studied" or "went"

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   Then, we have the object "in the university" or "to the airport"

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   If we wanted to put the word order of these sentences in VSO format, we would say, "Went I to the airport" or "Studied he in the university"

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   This does not sound correct in English, but it does work in Arabic.

   

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   Let's translate these sentences into the Arabic language

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   "I went to the airport" will become, in Arabic, "thahabtu ilaa almatoor".

   

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   "Thahabtu" is the past tense conjugation for "I" of the verb "to go"

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   "To go" in the past tense is "went", and the ending for "I" is "tu". We have "thahaba", which becomes "thahabtu" when we place the ending for "I".

   

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   We need to follow this with "to", which is "ilaa"

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    "Ilaa" is written alif, laam, and then a long "a" sound, which looks like a yaa without the dots below it

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    Again, that is "ilaa".

    

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    "The airport" is "almatoor"

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    It starts with "al" for definite, and then miim, tha, alif, ra. "Thahabtu ilaa almatoor" is "I went to the airport".

    

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    For the second sentence, we have the verb "darasa"

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    We need to conjugate this verb for "he", which is still "darasa".

    

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    "Darasa" is daal, ra, siin

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    Then, we need "in", which is "fîl"

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    "Fîl" is spelled faa, yaa

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    "The university" is "al jami'a"

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    It begins with "al" for definite, then jiim, alif, miim, ayn, taa marbuuta. Again, it is "darasa fîl jami'a".

    

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    This does conclude today's tutorial on how to create a verbal sentence easily in the Arabic language

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    If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please leave them in the space below.

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