Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 1 The Division of Words Into Nouns and Prepositions How many divisions of words are there? What is a verb? What is a noun? What is a preposition?
Words are divided into three • verb: کَتَبَ یَکتُبُ اُکتُب (write, he writes, he wrote) • noun: خالِد عُصفُور تُفّاحة (apple, sparrow, Khalid) • preposition: هل فی لم ( lam of negation, in, hal question word) A verb is a word that denotes an action or state in the past, present or future. For example: کُنتُ کَتَبتُ اکُونُ اکتُبُ کُن اُکتُب (write, be, I write, I am, I wrote, I was) A noun is a word that denotes an adjective or noun that can be described.
●A noun that can be described is a noun that denotes a person, animal or thing. For example: مریم فَرَس وَرَقَة (paper, horse, Maryam) • An adjective is a word that is related to another word describing its condition: for example: شَجَرَةٌ عالیَةٌ حَیَوانٌ بَرّیٌ (a wild animal, a tall tree) A preposition is a word that does not have a meaning unless it is related to a verb or noun. For example: the lā of negation for it does not have a meaning unless one says لا یضرِبُ ( don't hit).