Originally posted by: RuwaydaAtH https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33117680
Yep. Last time I did this was like a whole week ago and in that whole week, I was doing exams, exams and more exams while most Americans were enjoying their summer holidays. I don't have them until the 23rd. My life's so sad.
Enough with my rant and let's get onto our topic for the day.
Cases. Last time was an intro. This time we'll be doing the nominative case also known in Arabic as المرفوع al-marfuu3.
This case is marked by a dhamma which is one of these bad boys:
This case is used in 4 circumstances:
- الفاعل في جملة فعلية the subject of a verbal sentence
ذهبَ الولدُ إلى المدرسةِ. (dhahaba l-waladu ilaa l-madrasati.) The boy went to school
- المبتدأ والخبر في جملة اسمية the nominal subject and predicate of a nominal sentence
الولدُ طويلٌ. (al-waladu Tawiilun.)
The boy is tall. Note thatطويل is nunated (-un instead of just -u) because it is indefinite.
بيتُ البنتِ كبيرٌ. (baytu l-binti kabiirun.)
The girl's house is large. Again, note the nunation of the indefinite adjective كبير.
- النداء the vocative (addressing someone directly)
أيها السيداتُ والسادةُ... (ayyuha s-sayyidaatu was-saadatu...)
Ladies and gentlemen...
4- It's also used with certain adverbs regardless of their position in the sentence.
منذُ (mundhu) since; ago
حيثُ (Haythu) where; whereas
That was shorter than I expected it to be. Wow.
Next lesson[not saying tomorrow am I] we'll be doing accusative.
Until then........
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Peace be upon you all and have a good day/night!