Possessive pronouns in Arabic & English
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We've already known pronouns in Arabic, they are ضَمِيْرٌ مُتَّصِلٌ (attached pronoun) and ضَمِيْرٌ مُنْفَصِلٌ (unattached pronoun).
This tutorial will focus on the attached pronoun (damiir muttasil).
Functions of an attached pronoun
The attached pronoun can be used for:
1. إِضَافِيٌّ
idaafiyyun ( إِضَافِيٌّ ) means possessive. Therefore attached pronoun is used for a possessive pronoun or possessive determiner.Example:
قَلَمُهُ (qalamuhu) , means his pen.
2. مَفْعُوْلِيٌّ
maf'uuliyyun ( مَفْعُوْلِيٌّ ) means the pronoun is used for referring the object.Example:
نَصَرْتُهُ (nasratuhu), means I helped him.
Attached pronouns vs Unattached pronoun
Observe the complete table below to understand the unattached pronoun especially the possessive pronoun.
Examples
See the examples below.
قَلَمِيْ = my pen
قَلَمُنَا = our pen
قَلَمُكَ = your pen {singular male}
قَلَمُكُمَا = your pen {dual}
قَلَمُكُمْ = your pen {plural male}
قَلَمُكِ = your pen {singular female}
قَلَمُكُنَّ = your pen {plural female}
قَلَمُهُ = his pen
قَلَمُهُمْ = their pen {plural male}
قَلَمُهُمَا = their pen {dual}
قَلَمُهَا = her pen
قَلَمُهُنَّ = their pen {plural female}
After reading the examples, I hope you can practice them and make the simple sentence that contains the possessive form.
Exercises
Write these sentences in Arabic!
1. Her car is beautiful.
2. His house is big.
3. Our teacher is smart.
4. My brother is diligent.
5. Their father is rich.
Answer
1. سَيَّارَتُهَا جَمِيْلَةٌ
2. بَيْتُهُ كَبِيْرٌ
3. مُدَرِّسُنَا ذَكِيٌّ
4. أَخِيْ مُجْتَهِدٌ
5. أَبُوهُمْ غَنِيٌّ
Their uncle will be عمهم and not ابوهم
ReplyDeleteThank you.. it's been corrected
ReplyDeleteHi. Is there a diff btw the usage of idaafiyyun and maf'uuliyyun because they apparently have the same endings.
ReplyDelete@sweetginger :
ReplyDeleteeven though they both have the same ending, their function in the sentence is different.
idafiyy: a pronoun which is used to show the possession, commonly the pronoun is directly attached to a noun.
maf'uliyy: a pronoun which is used to refer the object, commonly the pronoun is directly attached to a verb.
Oh! now I get it! the latter comes with a verb. Thank you so much. Really appreciate your reply even though this post is really old.
ReplyDelete@sweetginger:
ReplyDeleteyour welcome.. hope this blog can benefit you....