learn arabic Maha Lesson 13

Learning Arabic can be interesting especially when you have a beautiful teacher like Maha.

How do say I dont know in Arabic?

Maha will be teaching you.

I = Ana in Arabic

Dont know - can be a bit tricky.

Dont is a verb in English. This is because in a sentence you have to have a verb.

Dont -- translated to La, it is the negative form of a verb. You put the"la" in front of a verb to signify that it is negative

know = a'ref

This is a form of present tense which will change according to whom it is intended to be.

a' ref = i know

ta' ref = you know

la ta' ref = you do not know

LA A' REF = I DONT KNOW

learn arabic - Maha lesson 12

In this lesson we are learning how to ask a simple question, "what is this".

You will note that, in English language, you have the word "is".

In Arabic this word doe s not exist, so the arab will say... "what this?"

.. ma hatha.

ma mean what, and

hatha is "this", one of the difficult think to learn is, most of the object is divided into

male and female.

'hatha' is for male and if it is a female, then you will say..

'ma hathihi'

we need to remember that cannot translate the arabic word, word by word.

This is because the mean reside in the phrase, so

for the phrase 'what is this' the arabic phrase is 'ma hatha'.

The word 'ma' is one of the word that can have different meaning, depending on the phrases.

I was puzzled when I learn that some of the arabic words had many meaning. I did appear odd

until someone remind me that some word is English language have the same characteristic, on having multiple meaning.. take example the word "in" or 'out'.