Lesson 21, 22 & 23

Question 0

لَمّا

Answer 0

The word لَمّا is also a negative paricle meaning NOT YET, and its also used with mudhaari.
If answering a question, e.g. Have the students gone out yet, can reply by saying just لّمَا without the verb

Question 1

لَمْ

Answer 1

The word لَمْ is a negatie particle. Its used mudhari and it changes it into negative maadi meaning. The verb also goes from being in R to being in Z.
E.g. لَم يَذهَبْ - he did not go
I did not understand the lesson لم أفهَمْ هذا الدرسَ (why fatha?)
See grammar for all the rules of verb in Z (tested in this chapter).

N.B. Double sukun causes the verb to take ـِ as the last radical instead of sukun.

Question 2

“Slowly please, don’t hurry”

Answer 2

Slowly please, don’t hurry = مَهلاً

Question 3

Neither___ nor ___

Answer 3

Neither ___ nor___ = ما ـــ ولا

Eg ما في الثَّلاَّجَةِ ماءٌ ولاعَصيرٌ

Question 4

Regular Plurals

Answer 4

R: المُدرسونَ

N/Z: المُدَسِينَ

Question 5

Neither (maadi) nor (maadi)

Answer 5

Neither (maadi) nor (maadi)
I neither ate nor drank: لا اَكَلْتُ ولا شَرِبْتُ
I neither read not wrote: لا قَرَأَ ولا كَتَبَ
SO to convey the idea of ‘neither…not’, the negative particle لا is used with maadi instead of ما

Question 6

The word لِ may be used to refer to the ‘author’ of the book, and is translated as ‘by’:

Answer 6

المُوَطَّأ لِلإمام مالِكٍ