Drill 3 – Case Endings

Drill

3 Part 1.

Complete this drill after reading all the sections in Part 1, Chapter 1, then compare your answers with the Answer Key provided below the drill. Drill 3 Part 2 follows the answer key.

Read sentences 1 and 2 below. Why are they marked for case the way they are? Now write in the case endings for the remaining sentences in this part of drill 3 and make sure you can translate them.

 

الطالبُ جديدٌ.

(1

الطالبةُ جديدةٌ

(2

المدير جديد.

(3

المديرة جديدة

(4

هذا المدرس ممتاز.

(5

هذا الكتاب ممتاز.

(6

هذه المديرة جديدة.

(7

ذلك المدرس جَيِّد.

(8

تلك المدرّسة جيدة.

(9

هذه المدْرسة جيدة.

(10

Answer Key to Drill

3 Part 1. All case endings are included below and each sentence is translated.

The student is new. الطالبُ is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence. It has only one dhamma because it is definite. جديدٌ is in the nominative case because it is the predicate of an equational sentence. It has nunation because it is indefinite. The same explanation holds for sentence number 2.

الطالبُ جديدٌ.

The student (f.) is new.

الطالبةُ جديدةٌ.

The director is new.

المديرُ جديد.ٌ

The director (f.) is new.

المديرةُ جديدةٌ.

This teacher is excellent.

هذا المدرسُ ممتازٌ.

This book is excellent.

هذا الكتابُ ممتازٌ.

This director (f.) is new.

هذه المديرةُ جديدةٌ.

That teacher is good.

ذلك المدرسُ جَيِّدٌ.

That teacher (f.) is good.

تلك المدرّسةُ جيدةٌ.

This school is good.

هذه المدْرسةُ جيدةٌ.

Drill 3 Part 2 – Case Endings. Complete the following drill after reading all sections of Part 1, Chapter 1. Then compare your answers with the Answer Key provided following this drill.

Answer the sentences below in the affirmative. Provide all case endings in your answers.

هل الكتاب مُفيد؟

(1

هل الجريدة جيدة؟

(2

هل أنتَ الأستاذ؟

(3

هل أنتِ الأستاذة؟

(4

هل أنتَ أستاذ؟

(5

هل أنتِ أستاذة؟

(6

هل هو مدير؟

(7

هل هي مدرّسة؟

(8

هل هي المدرّسة؟

(9

هل هذه المدرسة جديدة؟

(10

 

Answer Key to Drill 3 Part 2 Each question is answered below. The chart also includes translations of each question and of each answer.

Translation

Answer

Translation

Question

Yes, the book is beneficial.

نعم، الكتابُ مفيدٌ.

Is the book beneficial?

هل الكتابُ مُفيدٌ؟

Yes, the newspaper is good.

نعم، الجريدةُ جيدةٌ.

Is the newspaper good?

هل الجريدةُ جيدةٌ؟

Yes, I am the professor.

نعم، أنا الأستاذُ.

Are you the professor?

هل أنتَ الأستاذُ؟

Yes, I am the professor (f).

نعم، أنا الأستاذةُ.

Are you (f) the professor?

هل أنتِ الأستاذةُ؟

Yes, I am a professor.

نعم، أنا أستاذٌ.

Are you a professor?

هل أنتَ أستاذٌ؟

Yes, I am a professor (f).

نعم، أنا أستاذةٌ.

Are you (f) a professor?

هل أنتِ أستاذةٌ؟

Yes, he is a director.

نعم، هو مديرٌ.

Is he a director?

هل هو مديرٌ؟

Yes, she is a teacher.

نعم، هي مدرّسةٌ.

Is she a teacher?

هل هي مدرّسةٌ؟

Yes, she is the teacher.

نعم، هي المدرّسةُ.

Is she the teacher?

هل هي المدرّسةُ؟

Yes, this teacher (f) is new.

نعم، هذه المدرّسةُ جديدةٌ.

Is this teacher (f) new?

هل هذه المدرسةُ جديدةٌ؟

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