Arabic Interrogative:
To form the interrogative
in Arabic you just need to place the word “hal” هل
in the beginning of the sentence, easy!
Hal means do or does.
Does he have a house? =
hal ladaihi
bait? هل
لديه بيت؟
Do you smoke = hal tudakhen?
هل
تدخن؟
There are other ways to make questions in Arabic
using interrogative pronouns, just add them to your sentence and unlike
English, in Arabic you don’t need to change the order of the sentence:
What = matha (th
pronounced as in that)
è
What do you want? Matha tureed?
ماذا
تريد؟
Who = man
من
è
who are you? Man ant?
من
أنت؟
How = kaifa
كيف
è
How are you? Kaifa haaluk?
كيف
حالك؟
At what time = mataa
متى
è
at what time are you coming? Mataa sata’tee?
متى
ستأتي؟
Where = aina
أين
è
Where are you going? Aina anta daaheb?
أين
أنت ذاهب؟
From where = men aina
من أين
è
From where did you come? Men aina atait?
من أين
أتيت؟
Which = ayya
أيّ
è
Which city? Ayya madina?
أيّ
مدينة؟
When = mataa
متى
è
When are you going to go to be? Mataa satanaam?
متى
ستنام؟
How much/ many = kam
كم
è
How much is this book? Kam howa hatha
el kitaab?
كم
هو هذا الكتاب؟
Why = lematha (th pronounced
as in that) لماذا
è
Why are you here? Lematha anta huna?
لماذا
انت هنا؟
Negation in Arabic:
Very simple and easy to form a
negation in Arabic, just place “laaلا
” before the verb: for example:
I don’t like it = laa
ohibbuha لا
أحبها
Literally it means (No I like it).
I don’t want it = laa
oreeduha لا
أريدها, coffee is a drink I don’t like
= al qahwah mashroobun laa ohibuh
القهوة مشروب لا
احبه
To say “I’m not, he is not, she is not, we’re not….” In
Arabic we use “laisa ليس”, which
is a verb that you need to conjugate:
