وَصْفُ الْأَشْيَاءِ

Vocabulary lesson 13 of 20

Describing Things

Useful adjectives for size, quality, speed, and feeling.

Arabic adjectives normally come after the noun and agree with it. This lesson gives the common masculine singular base form.

Start with recognition and short combinations. Say baytun kabir, a big house, before worrying about longer grammar.

The fifteen words

Practice without looking

Choose one noun you know and describe it with three different adjectives.

Recognition is only the first step. Close the list, retrieve the words, then check what you missed.