Arabic Grammar: Adjectives in Arabic

Adjectives in Arabic

We call an adjective in Arabic “Na’t”       نعت or “Sifah”       صفة Singular of sifaat      صفات , adjectives in Arabic are typically words that describe a noun (Object, person, place…) called “man’oot”       منعوت or “mawssoof”       موصوف .

Adjectives rules

Unlike in English, the Arabic adjectives come after the noun they qualify and should agree with it in gender, number, and sometimes even in definiteness.

So here is what you should remember when dealing with adjectives in Arabic:

1 – We reverse the order of the words, to translate the following phrases into Arabic, just reverse the order of the words on each of them.

Here is the construction followed in these examples:

2 – If the noun is feminine, the adjective should also be famine.

definite nouns

3 – If the noun is definite (i.e. We attach the first word to “Al”       ال ), then the adjective is also definite and will have an “Al” ال attached to it.

Here is the construction followed in these examples:

4 – If the noun is dual or plural, then the adjective is also dual or plural in number.

Adjectives in Arabic are very useful as in any other language and they are mostly needed to add meaning and emotion to what we describe.

This subject may need a better understanding of definite and indefinite nouns, plurals, genders, and some other Arabic topics that we will be covering soon. Please leave any comment or suggestion related to this post in our comments box.

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