Thursday, 17 January 2013

Nominal sentence

Up until now I have been learning words, phrases and vowels. Today I am beginning to learn about sentences. The first type of sentence I am learning is called nominal sentence, or in Arabic is called الْجُملَةُ الْاِسْمِيَّةُ al jumlatu al ismiiyatu. Here are the rules of nominal sentence:
  1. It always begins with a noun or pronoun.
  2. It has two parts which is the subject called مُبتَدَأ mubtada and the predicate called خَبَر khabar.
  3. The مُبتَدَأ must always be a noun or pronoun.
  4. Generally, both the مُبتَدَأ andخَبَر are in the nominative case, that is the last huruf is a dhammah  ُor dhammatain   ٌ.
Examples of nominal sentences
The word colored in green is the مُبتَدَأ while the rest of the sentence is theخَبَر.
  1. اَحمَدٌ طَالِبٌ ahmadun Taalibun. Ahmad is a student.
  2. هُوَ وَلَدٌ huwa waladun. He is a boy.
  3. هُوَ وَلَدٌ جَيِّدٌ huwa waladun jaiyidun. He is a good boy.
  4. هِيَ طَالِبَةٌ جَيِّدَةٌ hiya Taalibatun jaiyidatun. She is a good student.
  5. خَالِدٌ فِي الْمُسْتَشْفَى khaalidun fii al mustashfa. Khalid is in the hospital.
  6. مُحَمَّدٌ خَرَجَ مِنَ الْجَامِعَةِ muhammadun kharaja min al jaami'ati. Muhammad went out from the university.