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Top 20 *Must-Know* Arabic Adverbs of Space

Posted on 21. Apr, 2012 by Hichem
in Arabic Language, Grammar, Vocabulary

Of course, when we talk about adverbs of
SPACE here, it’s not necessarily meaning “Outer Space“—but just any space in general!

For example, how do you say in Arabic
“here”, “there”, “over there”, “near”, “between”, etc.?

If you want to be really fluent
in Arabic, then, just like we said it a few days ago about the Arabic Adverbs of Time:

You have no other choice but to
learn عن ظهــــــــــر قـــــلــب (by heart) the following “Must-Know”
Arabic adverbs of Space!

Every فِعْــــــــــل (verb) must
occur in a given زَمَــــــــــــــــان (time) and a given
مَكَـــــــــــــــــان (place) .

Take the following question for
example:

“هل هل سبق أن صعدت فوق بُرج
الخَلِيــــــــــــــــفَةِ ؟”
(“Have you ever been
on top of Burj Al-Khalifa?”)

By saying “فوق ” (“on top of”) at that part of the sentence,
you specify exactly the location within the structure of the famous Dubai
skyscraper.

This diagram shows some Arabic Adverbs of Time (right column) and Space (left
column)

If you’re a faithful reader of the
Transparent Arabic Blog, you will remember that Arabic Adverbs have already been
covered by my colleagues Aziza and Fisal‘s posts.

Just like the word “Adobe”, the English
noun “Safari” is also of Arabic origine. The logo of the Safari Internet
browser features بوصلـــــــــــة (a Compass): An instrument developped further
by Arab navigators and scientists such as the Syrian Ibn Al-Shater (the pioneer
of Copernicus) after it was initially used in China

◊ Top 20 “Must-Know” ظروف
المكـــــــــــــان (Arabic Adverbs of Space):

قُــــــدّامَ (In front of)

خَلْــــــفَ (Behind)

هنـــــا (Here)

هنـــــاك (There)

هنـــــالك (Over there)

بين (Between)

فَــــــوْقَ (Above, on top of)

تَحْــــــتَ (Under, below, underneath)

وَرَاءَ (Behind)

يَمِيْــــن (right, rightwards)

شِمَــال (Left of, leftwards)

يســـــــار (Left of)

عِنْــــــدَ (At, by, with)

مَـــــــعَ (With)

أنّى (Anywhere)

ناحيةَ (In the direction of)

وسطَ (In the middle of)

خلالَ (Throughout)

قربَ (Near)

حولَ (Around)

Finally, keep in mind that in some
Arabic grammar
books  ظرف المكـــــــــــــان (the
adverb of time) is also designated as “المَفعـــــــــــــول فيـــــــــــــه”
(literally “the object within”), but don’t let that confuse you, because both
terms are in fact مُتَرادِفيـــــــــــــــــــــــن
(synonymous.)

Ok, so see you guys
again هنـــــا (here) قَرِيْـــــــــــــــبًا
(soon), إن شـــــاء الله (God willing)

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