LESSON SEVEN : Where is it?

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In this lesson we will deal with asking where things are, and prepositions (words of place)

Firstly we need the word for "where?". In Arabic this is
أين
(ayna)

To ask where something is, all you have to do is place this word infront of the name of the thing you are looking for:
أين البيت؟
(ayn albayt?) where is the house?
أين الولد؟
(ayn alwalad?) where is the boy?
أين ليلى؟
(ayna layla?)where is layla?
أين زوجي؟
(ayna zawjee?) where is my husband?

In reply we are likely to use prepositions (As these are words relating to place and position). In Arabic, when you use one of these words, the following noun must have a kasra on the last letter.

First here are a list of the prepositions for today :

في
(fee) in
علَى
(3alaa) on
تحتَ
(tahta) under
قريب مِن
(qareeb min) near
فوقَ
(fawqa) over / on top of
بجانب
(bijaanib) next to
بعيد من
(ba3eed min) far away from
أمام
(amaam) infront of
وراء
(waraa') behind



Now here are some examples:

أين عليّ؟ هو في البيتِ
(ayna Ali? huwa fil bayt) where is Ali? he is in the house
أين القطّة؟ هي في السيّارةِ
(ayn al qiTTa? hiya fis sayaara) where is the cat? it is in the car
إين الكتاب؟ هو على الطاولةِ
(ayn alkitaab? huwa 3ala aT-Taawila) where is the book? it is on the table.

Vocab
Learn thoroughly the given list of prepositions aswell as revising previous vocabulary.

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exercises

1.) write 10 questions and answers about where something is.

2.) describe the following picture by saying where the objects are :

http://www.ummah.com/arabic/lessonsevenpic.gif

3.) draw your own pictures to illustrate the following senarios.

الولد بجانب الباب والكلب قريب من الولد

السيّارة أمام المسجد

السرير تحت الشبّاك

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vocab audio here (the list of prepostitioins) (http://www.ummah.com/arabic/lesson7vocab.rm)