Al-Nahw al-Wadih Primary — Volume 2 (النحو الواضح للمرحلة الابتدائية) — Page 8

Arabic text · النص

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

أَيْنَ مَنْزِلُكَ؟

Where is your house?

أَيْنَ تَذْهَبُ؟

Where are you going?

إِلَى أَيْنَ تَسِيرُ؟

Where are you headed?

ذُبِحَ الْجَزَّارُ شَاةً.

The butcher slaughtered a sheep.

الْجَزَّارُ ذَبَحَ شَاةً.

The butcher slaughtered a sheep.

هَلْ ذَبَحَ الْجَزَّارُ شَاةً؟

Did the butcher slaughter a sheep?

مِنْ أَيِّ مَكَانٍ جِئْتَ؟

Where did you come from?

جِئْتُ مِنْ مَنْزِلِي.

I came from my house.

أَخَذْتُ مِنْ أَبِي نُقُودًا.

I took money from my father.

الْقُطْنُ عِمَادُ الثَّرْوَةِ فِي مِصْرَ.

Cotton is the backbone of Egypt's wealth.

جَنَى الْفَلَّاحُ الْقُطْنَ.

The farmer harvested the cotton.

تُصْنَعُ الْمَلَابِسُ مِنَ الْقُطْنِ.

Clothes are made from cotton.

ذَبُلَتِ الْوَرْدَةُ.

The rose withered.

شَمِمْتُ الْوَرْدَةَ.

I smelled the rose.

نَظَرْتُ إِلَى الْوَرْدَةِ.

I looked at the rose.

الْبُسْتَانُ

The orchard bears fruit.

يُثْمِرْ.

The orchard will not bear fruit.

الْبُسْتَانُ لَمْ يُثْمِرْ.

The orchard did not bear fruit.

إِذَا تَأَمَّلْتَ الْكَلِمَاتِ: أَيْنَ وَذَبَحَ وَمِنْ فِي أَمْثِلَةِ الْقِسْمِ الْأَوَّلِ، وَجَدْتَ آخِرَ كُلِّ كَلِمَةٍ مِنْهَا ثَابِتًا عَلَى حَالٍ وَاحِدَةٍ لَا يَتَغَيَّرُ مَهْمَا تَغَيَّرَ مَكَانُ الْكَلِمَةِ.

If you examine the words 'where', 'slaughtered', and 'from' in the first section, you will find that the ending of each remains constant, regardless of the word's position in the sentence.

Vocabulary · المفردات (15 verbs · 21 nouns)

• ذَهَبَ — to go
• سَارَ — to walk
• ذَبَحَ — to slaughter
• جَنَى — to harvest
• صَنَعَ — to make
• ذَبُلَ — to wither
• شَمَّ — to smell
• نَظَرَ — to look
• أَثْمَرَ — to bear fruit
• جَاءَ — to come
• أَخَذَ — to take
• تَأَمَّلَ — to contemplate
• وَجَدَ — to find
• ثَبَتَ — to be fixed
• تَغَيَّرَ — to change
• مِثَالٌ — an example
• مَنْزِلٌ — house
• قُطْنٌ — cotton
• عِمَادٌ — pillar
• ثَرْوَةٌ — wealth
• فَلَّاحٌ — farmer
• مَلْبَسٌ — garment
• وَرْدَةٌ — rose
• جَزَّارٌ — butcher
• شَاةٌ — sheep
• مَكَانٌ — place
• نُقُودٌ — money
• أَبٌ — father
• بُسْتَانٌ — orchard
• بَحْثٌ — research
• كَلِمَةٌ — word
• قِسْمٌ — section
• أَوَّلٌ — first
• آخِرٌ — end
• حَالٌ — state
• وَاحِدٌ — one