Arabic grammar A1 · Lesson 2 of 4
The nominal sentence
Arabic has no verb for is in the present: means the house is big. A sentence that starts with a noun is a nominal sentence: a subject () and a predicate ().
The subject is usually definite and the predicate indefinite: , the weather is nice. With both definite, it is a phrase, not a sentence: means the nice weather.
A pronoun can be the subject: , , . The predicate agrees with it in gender and number.
Examples
- البيت كبير.
- الجو حار اليوم.
- أنا طالب.
- هي طبيبة.
- المدينة جميلة.