In Arabic there are two types of sentences:
The nominal sentence “الجملة الأسمية”
a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as the book, is new’. “الكتاب جديد”
A sentence such as “What a great day today!””يا له من يوم عظيم اليوم!” is, for example, considered nominal since there are no verbs.
Nominal groups can contain other parts of speech such as prepositions, articles, adjectives, and others.
Using a nominal gives the reader a more complete sense of what the writer is trying to convey
In Arabic, the nominal sentence consists of the mubtada2 which can is the ‘subject’ and the “khabar” which is ‘the predicate’. The mubtada/subject is the noun about which you want to say
something, and the khabar/predicate is what you have to
say about the subject
Take a look at this phrase
محمد مريض ‘Mohamed is sick’. In this sentence, you want to give more information about the state of Mohamed, so it is the mubtada/subject and the information you give about him is that he is sick)F so that is the Khabar/predicate.
More examples
That’s a nice cup of tea
هذا كوب جميل من الشاي
Our school building is big.
مبنى مدرستنا كبير
Verbal Sentence “الجملة الفعلية”
Verbal sentences consist of a verb + subject + object or adverbial phrase. The subject and object can be either nouns or pronouns.
خرجَ محمد
Mohamed went out’
hmed is continuing his lessons
أحمدٌ يتابع دروسه
My mother makes delicious food for us.
أمّي تعدّ لنا طعاماً لذيذاً.
.The girl went to her school.
الفتاةُ ذهبتْ إلى مدرستها
Omar bought flowers for his mother
عمر اشترى زهورًا لوالدته
Here is a list of the most common verbs in Arabic
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