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shebab saysTue 17th Sep 13@05:40 pmAnother great lesson! I never actually have paid attention to whether nouns are masculine or feminine in Arabic unless they end in tamar bu ta...it doesn't seem to be a big issue for regular conversation as it is in French or Spanish....For Ehab or Mohd, isn't there a grammar rule that if the noun is a thing rather than a person, you use the masculine conjugation هو rather than هي? For example, القطة يمشي instead of القطة تمشي? Or am I completely wrong? Sorry if I am!
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Ahlan shebab,
For singular nouns, you use (huwa هو) with masculine nouns and (hiya هي) for feminine ones regardless to being person or a thing.
So you should say (the cat walks القطة تمشي) - (the dog walks الكلب يمشي) and (it is my aunt's book هو كتاب عمتي).
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Thanks Ehab! I don't know how I came up with that imaginary rule in my head! ;)
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Good lesson! Thanks. I do benefit from these podcasts so please keep them coming.
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Very nice job. Thanks!
Lower Intermediate - Full of clouds
September 16th, 2013 | 1 comment |
Learn how to discuss the weather in today's podcast. We particularly teach you how to predict that it will rain because of cloudy skies. This predication might go against what the weather forecast said.
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