One litre of oil was bought.(zaytan is tamyı- z, because it specifies that the measured substance is oil
and not something else)ِإ ْش َت َ رى َواِل ِ دي ِل ْت ًرا َز ْي ًتا
isˇtara ̄ wa ̄lid-ı- litran zaytan.
My father bought one litre of oil.ِع ْن ِ دي ِع ْش ُرو َن َق ِمي ًصا
ind-ı
isˇru ̄na qamı- s
̇
- s
an.I have twenty shirts.ّم َهاَل َج َما ًلا ِم ْن ُأَُّأْل ِب ْن ُت َأ َق
al-bintu
aqallu g ̆ama ̄lan min
ummi-ha ̄.The girl is less beautiful than her mother.(lit. The girl is less with regard to beauty than her mother.)Exercises
Practise your reading:
1
ُتْظِفَح2
) ٌسْرَد ( َسوُرُد اًبْيَغ3
) ٌةَدِعاَق ( ِدِعاَوَق4. اًسْرَد اًسْرَد ِة َّ يِبَرَعْل ِةَغ ُّ لـل
(1)
1
I learned the Arabic
3
grammar (lessons)
2
by heart, lesson by lesson(lit. the
3
rules of the Arabic
4
language).1
ُتْرِهَس2
َلْي َّ لـل3
ُهَّلُك4
يِدْحَوِل5,6
ُسا َّ نلَو7. َنوُمِئاَن
(2)
1
I stayed
1
awake
3
all
2
night
4
alone (by myself)
5
while
6
the people were
7
asleep.يِف
1
ِبْرَغْل2
َنوُعَنْصَي3
َديِدَحـْل4
يِفَو اًحَلاِس5
ِقْر َّ شل6
َنوُعـَطـْقـَي7
) ٌةَرَجَش ( َراَجْشْ َلأ8. اًبَطَح
(3) In
1
the West
2
they make
3
iron into
4
weapons and in
5
the East
6
they cut
7
trees for
8
wood.1
َرَجاَه2
َنِم يِراَج3
ِةَيْرَقْل4,5
ٌريِبَك َوُهَو6
ْمَلَو7
ْدُعَن8
ُعَمْسَن9
ُهْنَع01
اًئْيَش11
ذ ُذْنُما. ِنيِحـْل َكِل
(4)
2
My neighbour
1
emigrated from
3
the village
4
when
5
he was old and
11
since then we have
8
heard
6,7,10
nothing
9
about him.305Adverbs
and
adverbials,
absolute
object, h
̇a ̄l,
tamyı- z