More bogus Arabic from another wannabe Arab

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Nov 29, 2008 at 08:46

Our dear Keith wrote

>Hi,I enjoy our Arabic lessons. Thanks for looking out but,dhimmi no more wrote:>>Huwa rajil jahil jida (sic) Right? Or he man ignorant much (sic) Right? well this is very poor syntax not just in Arabic but also in English as you can see<he is a very ignorant man.Well, I could be wrong but in my schooling I was taught that (hadha) was a demonstrative pronoun and not a personal pronoun. That is why I used the personal pronoun (huwa). There are two demonstratives (asmāʼu al-ʼišārati), near-deictic ('this') and far-deictic ('that').hādha (هذا), f. hādhihi (هذه), pl. hāʼulāʼi (هؤلاء ) 'this, these' dhālika (ذلك), f. tilka (تلك), pl. ʼulāʼika (أولئك) 'that, those' Also, word order in Arabic is different from english. Classical Arabic tends to prefer the word order VSO (verb before subject) rather than SVO (subject before verb).Also, you can but you don't have to use inna.The subject of a sentence can be topicalized and emphasized by moving it to the beginning of the sentence and preceding it with the word inna. Examples are "innaka anta jamīlun" "YOU are beautiful" or "inna s-samā'a zarqā'u" "THE SKY is blue".So in that case then I would have said, inna rajil jahil jida.By the way I said, "He is a very ignorant man" and not "YOU are a very ignorant man".

Really? ... and it is inna hadha al-rajil jahilin jiddan (vocalized) and get over it

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