Sunday, August 4, 2013

Lesson 12- More adjective agreement

Adjectives also have to agree in definiteness or indefiniteness with the nouns they describe when there is no "is" between them.

aL-mar'a      L-jamiila  The beautiful woman
the-woman   the-beautiful

rajul      kabiir  a big man
a-man   a-big

(a)r-rajul-(u)   L-kabiir  The big man
the-man           the-big

(a)s-sayaara L-jamiila  The beautiful car
the-car          the-beautiful

madrasa jayyida  a good school
a-school  a-good

aL-madrasa L-jayyida  the good school
the-school     the-good

ad-dars-(u)    S-Sa3b  the difficult lesson
the-lesson  the-difficult

aL-lugha        L-3arabiiya  the Arabic language
the-language  the-Arabic

aL-lugha        L-inklisiiya   the English language
the-language   the-English

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