Arabic: An Essential Grammar

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ْلَه

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َنيِنُكْسَت

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ِهِذه يِف ِكَدْحَو

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ِةَّقـَّ شل

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؟ِةَعِساَوْل

(10)

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Are you (f.)

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living

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alone in this

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large

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apartment?

Translate into Arabic:

(1) Is the disabled person living alone in this large apartment?

(2) How many cups of coffee? Who paid? How much?

(3) Do you know how many traffic accidents happened in the city last

summer?

(4) The director of the prison talked to all the employees about raising

their wages.

(5) Where are you living (m.s.)? And are you living with your family?

(6) I travel every week between the city and the university. Sometimes

I travel by train and sometimes I take my car.

(7) The cat ate the piece of cheese and some of the meat from the table and

then it escaped.

(8) The thief jumped from the apartment to the road and escaped. The dog

chased him but could not catch him.

(9) There is a possibility that the minister will take part in the NATO

(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) conference.

(10) Do you know how many ministers there are in the government?

(11) Is the government intending to send military personnel to the

conference?

(12) The thief escaped by car and no one knows where he is hiding.

(13) O! Your excellency, Ambassador! On which aeroplane will the dele-

gation travel? And did you inform the crew that among the passengers

there is a person who is unable to climb the steps to (go up the ladder

of ) the aeroplane without help?

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