NOMINAL SENTENCE IN ARABIC LANGUAGE
By: Yusuf Basirat Bolanle
Arabic Language has 2 types of sentence:
They are: The Nominal and The Verbal sentences.
For the purpose of this lesson, we shall discuss the Nominal Sentence only, we shall talk on the definition, parts, uses and examples.
DEFINITION AND DISCUSSION
Nominal sentence is known as (الجملة الاسمية) in Arabic language.
It refers to the sentence that begins with a noun or a
pronoun. Nominal sentence has its main parts.
Parts of a Nominal Sentence
It has 2 major parts which are:
-The subject (المبتدأ) and
-The predicate (الخبر)
The subject of the nominal sentence can be a noun or a pronoun while the predicate can be a noun, an adjective, preposition, or a verb.
The subject of a nominal sentence performs the same function as that of a verbal sentence. The subject of any sentence is the doer of an action in the sentence. The subject of a nominal sentence can either be a noun or a pronoun as stated above.
In the following examples the subjects are underlined:
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الولد جميل
The boy is handsome
البنت تقرأ
The girl is reading
صديقى ماليزيُّ
My friend is a Malaysian
الحديقة نظيفة
The Garden is neat
هذا مدرس قديم
This is an old teacher
هذه سيارة جديدة
This is a new car
نحن من نيجيريا
We are from Nigeria
أنا جوعان جدا
I am very hungry
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A critical look at the above examples, it is clear that the underlined words are the subjects. These subjects are made up of both Nouns and Pronouns. This is an indication that a nominal sentence subject can be either noun or pronoun.
The Predicate
The predicate completes the senescence of a nominal sentence and add sense to it or adds to its meaning to make a complete sentence
الرجل طبيب الرجل طبيب
The man is a doctor
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هذه مهندسة هذه مهندسة
This is a female engineer
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هو مدرس هو مدرس
He is a teacher
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نيجيريا فى أفريقيا نيجيريا فى أفريقيا
Nigeria is in Africa
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القلم تحت المكتب القلم تحت المكتب
The pen is under the table
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البيت كبير البيت كبير
The house is big
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المدرس يقرأ الصحف المدرس يقرأالصحف
The teacher is reading the newspaper
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In the above table, the predicates are indicate separately in
the last column, the bold and the underlined. The predicate
can be a noun, adjective and adverb, preposition or even a
verb as stated before. Hence, it describes or complete the
sentence and adds meaning to it.
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