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اللغة العربية
Unlike English
Arabic adjectives follow the noun they
modify, which is somehow easier, because when you start with the noun first
you will easily modify the adjective that comes afterwards accordingly
either to its masculine, feminine, dual or plural form.
Arabic Adjectives & Adverbs
A
small house: baitun sagheer
بيت صغير
(literally house small).
Just like Spanish &
German …, Arabic has masculine and feminine adjective forms, we learned in a
previous lesson how to form the feminine from masculine in nouns, same steps
will be taken to form feminine adjectives too.
Let’s go over the rule of
forming feminine from masculine form, which includes feminine adjectives
with some:
In
Arabic to form a feminine adjective from the masculine, you simply add “taa’
marbuta” which looks like
((ة,
ــة to the end of the adjective… for example:
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Arabic Adjectives |
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Big: Kabeer
كبير
(masculine)
è
Big: kabeera كبيرة
(feminine)
Small: Sagheer
صغير (masculine)
è
Small: sagheera صغيرة
(feminine)
Beautiful: Jameel
جميل (masculine)
è
Beautiful: jameela جميلة(feminine) |
Note
that adding the “taa’ marbuta ة, ــة ”
is not always the case to form the feminine of a masculine adjective. There
are some exceptions to this:
Colors and most
adjectives starting with “a” “ أ ” for
example take in most cases a different form, which is represented in this
model word
è
(?a??aa’),
the steps to model our feminine irregular adjective is: extract the
consonants from the masculine adjective and place them respectively in the
place of the question marks, here are some examples:
Blue
è
azraq
أزرق
(masculine)
è
zrq (raw consonants)
è
(?a??aa’)
raw model
è
zarqaa’
زرقاء
(after replacing the ??? with
the consonants)
Dumb
è
abkam أبكم
(masculine)
è
bkm (raw consonants)
è
(?a??aa’)
raw model
è
bakmaa’
بكماء (after
replacing the ??? with the consonants)
Dual Adjectives in Arabic:
To form a dual
masculine adjective in Arabic we simply add “aan”
“ان ” to the
end of the adjective, note that you can do that even with adjectives
starting with “a” “ أ ”,
Big
è
kabeer كبير
(masculine singular)
è
Big è
kabeeraan كبيران
(masculine dual)
Blue
è
azraq أزرق
(masculine singular)
è
Blue è
azraqaan
أزرقان
(masculine dual)
To form a dual feminine
adjective add “ataan” “
تان ” to the
masculine adjective:
Big
è
kabeer كبير
(masculine singular)
è
Big è
kabeerataan كبيرتان
(feminine dual)
For adjectives starting
with “a” “ أ ” the dual feminine will
take the “?a??awataan”
form, by replacing the question marks with our consonants:
Blue
è
azraq
أزرق (masculine
singular)
è
Blue è
zarqawaan
زرقاوان
(feminine dual) (after replacing the “?”
of ?a??awataan
with azraq
consonants)
Plural adjective in
Arabic:
The way to form a plural
adjective is the same way you form a plural noun, we already discussed that
in a separate page (forming
the plural)
Just remember that the
adjective follows the noun, and not the opposite like in English.
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Good: jayyed
جيد |
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Bad: sayye’
سيء |
This is a list of
vocabularies that you need to memorize to improve your Arabic learning,
below you will find a table of adjectives and adverbs in Arabic (about 150
words), try to memorize as many as you can, because they’re very important
in daily conversations.
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Arabic
Adjectives and Adverbs |
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able |
qaader |
قادر |
|
absolutely |
kat'an |
قطعا |
|
acid |
haamed
(sharp H) |
حامض |
|
active |
nasheet |
نشيط |
|
angry |
ghazeb |
غاضب |
|
awake |
mostaiqez |
مستيقظ |
|
bad |
sayye' |
سيء |
|
beautiful |
jameel |
جميل |
|
bent |
matwiy |
مطوي |
|
best |
al afdal |
الأفضل |
|
better |
ahsan or afdal |
أحسن,
أفضل |
|
bitter |
morr |
مر |
|
black |
aswad |
أسود |
|
blue |
azraq |
أزرق |
|
boiling |
yaghlee |
يغلي |
|
bright |
laame' |
لامع |
|
broken |
maksour |
مكسور |
|
brown |
bonnee |
بنَي |
|
certain |
mota'akked |
متأكد |
|
cheap |
rakhees |
رخيص |
|
cheerful |
mobhej |
مبهج |
|
clean |
nadeef |
نظيف |
|
clear |
saafee |
صافي |
|
clearly |
bewodooh |
بوضوح |
|
clever |
thaki
(th as in that) |
ذكي |
|
cold |
baared |
بارد |
|
common |
'aadiy |
عادي |
|
complete |
kaamel |
كامل |
|
complex |
mo'aqqad |
معقد |
|
correctly |
beshakl saheeh |
بشكل
صحيح |
|
cruel |
qaasy |
قاسي |
|
dark |
mothlem (th as in
this) |
مظلم |
|
dead |
mayyet |
ميَت |
|
deep |
'ameeq |
عميق |
|
different |
mokhtalef |
مختلف |
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difficult |
sa'b |
صعب |
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dirty |
wasekh |
وسخ |
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dry |
jaaf |
جاف |
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early |
baaker |
باكر |
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easily |
besohoulah |
بسهولة |
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easy |
sahl |
سهل |
|
electric |
kahraba'ee |
كهربائي |
|
equal |
mosawy |
مساوِ |
|
false, |
ghalat |
غلط |
|
fat (person) |
badeen |
بدين |
|
female |
onthaa (th as in
thin) |
أنثى |
|
fertile |
khesb |
خصب |
|
first |
awwal |
أوَل |
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friendly |
lateef |
لَطِيف |
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full |
momtale' |
ممتلئ |
|
general |
'aam |
عام |
|
good |
jayed |
جيد |
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great |
‘azeem |
عظيم |
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greater |
a'zam |
أعظم |
|
green |
akhdar |
أخضر |
|
grey |
ramaady |
رمادي |
|
hanging |
mo'allaq |
معلَق |
|
happy |
farhaan |
فرحان |
|
hard (difficult) |
sa'b |
صعب |
|
hard (stiff) |
salb |
صلب |
|
healthy |
sehhee |
صحَي |
|
heavy |
taqeel |
ثقيل |
|
High |
'aaly |
عال |
|
ill |
mareed |
مريض |
|
important |
mohem |
مهم |
|
kind |
lateef |
لطيف |
|
large |
waase' |
واسع |
|
last |
akheer |
أخير |
|
late |
mota'akhkher |
متأخر |
|
least |
aqal |
أقل |
|
left |
yasaar |
يسار |
|
less |
aqal |
أقل |
|
light |
khafeef |
خفيف |
|
little |
qaleel |
قليل |
|
long |
taweel |
طويل |
|
loving |
moheb |
محب |
|
low |
monkhafed |
منخفض |
|
male |
dakar |
ذكر |
|
married |
motazawwej |
متزوج |
|
medical |
tebbey |
طبي |
|
mixed |
mokhtalet |
مختلط |
|
more |
aktar |
أكثر |
|
most |
mo'zam |
معظم |
|
much |
katheer( th as in
thin) |
كثير |
|
narrow |
dayeq |
ضيق |
|
natural |
tabee'y |
طبيعي |
|
necessary |
daroory |
ضروري |
|
new |
jadeed |
جديد |
|
nice |
jameel |
جميل |
|
normal |
'aady |
عادي |
|
old |
qadeem |
قديم |
|
open |
maftouh |
مفتوح |
|
polite |
mohazab |
مهذب |
|
poor |
faqeer |
فَقِير |
|
possible |
momken |
مكن |
|
pretty |
jameel |
جميل |
|
private |
khaas |
خاص |
|
public |
'omomy |
عمومي |
|
punctual |
zaqeeq |
دقيق |
|
quick |
saree' |
سريع |
|
quiet |
hadee' |
هادئ |
|
rapidly |
besor'a |
بسرعة |
|
ready |
mosta'ed |
مستعد |
|
red |
ahmar |
أحمر |
|
regular |
'aady |
عادي |
|
rich |
ghanee |
غني |
|
right |
yameen |
يمين |
|
rough |
khashen |
خشن |
|
round |
mostadeer |
مستدير |
|
sad |
hazeen |
حزين |
|
safe |
aamen |
آمن |
|
same |
momaathel (th as in
thin) |
مماثل |
|
secret |
serry |
سرّي |
|
sensitive |
hassaas |
حساس |
|
separate |
monfasel |
منفصل |
|
serious |
jeddy |
جدي |
|
sharp |
haad |
حاد |
|
short |
qaseer |
قصير |
|
shy |
khajoul |
خجول |
|
simple |
baseet |
بسيط |
|
slow |
batee' |
بطئ |
|
small |
sagheer |
صغير |
|
soft |
na'em |
ناعم |
|
sour |
haamed (sharp h) |
حامض |
|
special |
khaas |
خاص |
|
strange |
ghareeb |
غريف |
|
strong |
qawi |
قوي |
|
sudden |
mofaje' |
مفاجئ |
|
sweet |
holw |
حلو |
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tall |
taweel |
طويل |
|
the best |
al afdal |
الأفضل |
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the greatest |
al a'dam |
الاعظم |
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the least |
al aqal |
الأقل |
|
the worst |
al aswa' |
الأسوأ |
|
thick |
sameek |
سميك |
|
thin |
raqeeq |
رقيق |
|
tired |
ta'baan |
تعبان |
|
ugly |
qabeeh |
قبيح |
|
violent |
'aneef |
عنيف |
|
warm |
dafe' |
دافئ |
|
weak |
da'eef |
ضعيف |
|
well |
jayed |
جيد |
|
wet |
mobtal |
مبتل |
|
white |
abyad |
أبيض |
|
wide |
‘areed |
عريض |
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wise |
hakeem |
حكيم |
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witty |
Thaki (th as in that) |
ذكي |
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worse |
aswa' |
أسوأ |
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worst |
alaswa' |
الأسوأ |
|
wrong |
ghalat |
غلط |
|
yellow |
asfar |
أصفر |
|
young |
shaab |
شاب |
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