Arabic Nouns

Welcome to the third Arabic lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Arabic to help you practice your daily phrases. To hear the pronunciation, just click on the sound icon.

potatoes بطاطس [batates]

tomatoes طماطم [tamatem]

onions بصل [basal]

carrots جزر [jazar]

fruits فواكه [fawakeh]

apples تفاح [tuffah]

bananas موز [mawz]

oranges برتقال [burtuqal]

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Arabic + Pronunciation
do you have milk? [verb + noun] هل لديك حليب؟ [hal ladaik halib?]
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] لدي حليب و قهوة [laday halib wa qahwa]
he has three apples [number + plural noun] لديه ثلاث تفاحات [ladaih thalath tufahat]
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] لديها تفاحة واحدة فقط [ladaiha tufaha wahida faqat]
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] نعيش في منزل صغير [naesh fe manzjil saghir]
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] أحب فطورنا [uhib futuruna]

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread خبر [khubz]

milk حليب [haleeb]

butter زبدة [zubda]

cheese جبن [jubn]

coffee قهوة [qahwa]

sandwich ساندويتش [sandwitch]

meat لحم [lahm]

chicken دجاج [dajaj]

fish سمك [samak]

breakfast فطور [futur]

lunch غداء [ghadaa]

dinner عشاء [ashaa]

Conversation in Arabic

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Arabic - Pronunciation
Do you speak Arabic? هل تتحدث اللغة العربية؟ [hal tatahadath allugha alarabia]
Just a little قليلا [qalilan]
I like Arabic أحب اللغة العربية [uhibbu allugha alarabia]
Can I practice with you? هل ممكن أن أتمرن معك؟ [hal mumkin an atamarran maak?]
How old are you? كم هو سنك؟ [kam huwa sinnuk?]
I'm thirty three years old أبلغ من العمر 33 سنة [ablughu men alumr 33 sana]
It was nice talking to you لقد سعدت بالتحدث معك [laqad suedtu bitahaduth maak]

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