Lower Intermediate - Grammar: Forming questions

لم أفهم لماذا كلمة "هل" يعتبر "حرف"؟

I guess that I should admit that I didn't get the point about "hal" being a "letter". I can understand hamza being considered a letter... but what's the deal with Hal?

Something seems to have gone wrong with the "teaser" text - it is the same as for the preceding lesson ...

حرف (plural حروف ) also means PARTICLE.
ھَلْ and أَ are the question particles in Arabic.

Thanks Vinod, I guess that goes to show that subtle translation differences can easily cause confusion.

Yes, Karen is right.

Thanks for backing me up, Aliyah.:-)

Thanks for clarifying the meaning of حرف , vinod, it's so easy to become confused. Just recently, having made a clumsy attempt in Arabic to comment on the small font size on Skype chat, using كلام , it was explained to me that it refers to words in the spoken rather than written sense.