"cold new fish"
Translation:سَمَك جَديد بارِد
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We should guess grammar behind words and groups of words.watch carfully !
These arabic lessons are horrible because it's just guessing and no pictures to help memorize... Pleade update!
Whom are you asking to update? This is a user forum, not a place that developers come reading.
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ppl from the team often visit the comment section in order to correct and give tips, so they'll see those comments as well
Are there any rules or common practices around adjective order? For example in English we usually put size first. Most wouldn't say "the grey big fox". It would be "the big grey fox". Thanks
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It'll be the same order, but reversed, is my understanding. The order of adjectives is fairly universal across languages, just sometimes in reverse order, and the noun can appear at the beginning or end of the list, or even in the middle (eg French)!
Same question...i missed points on a phrase simply because i switched the order of 2 adjectives but had the noun order right. Is this actually wrong or an oversight by Duolingo?
I think Arabic grammar rules are a little tricky and comprehensive. But constant trial and error from this app may help you pick up on "what order sounds right" if you get what I mean. But to improve beyond that you'd need to take external arabic grammar lessons
I'm unsure, but I think it sounds more natural in that order. There's some useful discussion of Arabic adjective order here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/32854689
I did the same, but Duolingo accepted my answer (September 8, 2021). However, in English, putting an adjective like "new" right next to the noun it modifies sounds more natural. Compare
cold new fish
to
new cold fish
Does "cold new fish" sound more natural? It does to me. Other examples include these:
and finally, this one:
If translations provided by Google Translate are any indicator, Arabic consistently follows this same pattern. Note how
جَدِيد
consistently follows the noun in the examples below:
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Lisa, when you change the order of the adjectives, you change the meaning of sentences. "A shiny new toy" means a new toy that is shiny as opposed to a new toy that is not shiny, maybe a Teddy bear. "A new shiny toy" means you have other shiny toys and you just got another shinny one.
The first adjective modifies the 2nd adjective. "A cold new fish" means a new fish that is cold as opposed to hot. "New" is modifying "fish" and "cold" is modifying "new". "A new cold fish" means you have other cold fish and just got another cold one.
It's the same in Arabic, except in Arabic the main adjective comes first and its modifier comes 2nd.
No , in Arabic we are saying سمك بارد جديد سمك جديد بارد So, the same in Arabic
Please let me know the meaning of these words before forming sentences... it's difficult... And really like shooting arrows in dark i agree to jihel5
Smak سمك means fish Jadid جديدmeans new Barid باردmeans cold I hope that is help you
In swahili Samaki- fish and baridi- cold, as for Jadid i've learnt from you. Thanks
It would be nice if the lesson tips for Arabic were available through the app, like some of the other languages. Most of us are using Duolingo through our phones app.
Question: are there any accentuation rules in Arabic in pronouncing stressed syllables?
Yes, there are some words. We know the accent words by placing an accent on it. This ( ّ ) to accentuate the letter, for example, هو حرّ means he is free:)
Maybe so, but wouldn't that be more commonly expressed with this:
سَمَكُ طازَجٌ بارِدٌ
?
I did an image search of both phrases and the one with this word:
طازَجٌ
showed far more of this:
There needs to be grammar lessons to know how to place words. Some people may not jnow that Arabic is written and read right to left and there is no direction on how to do this.
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There are short grammar explanations on the "Learn" page. You click on the lesson circle and then the lightbulb icon. Sadly though, these explanations are not available on all smartphone apps. Update: The lightbulb icon has been replaced with the word "Tips".
Same here, first I had the fish and I translated to "fish cold" and it stated that it was wrong but then for chicken, it stated that it should be "Chicken cold" and not "cold chicken"...
For everyone complaining I understand your struggle so heres a tip:open up excel or any writing program and all the new words you learned copy paste them and write the definition.Remember no app or book can teach you EVERYTHING so take some time to do other stuff hope this helped bye :)
These should include a reading of the sentence in arabic once the answer has been finalised. Would make it easier to learn for future references.
Why there are no "word order" practice lectures? This doesn't help us to learn properly.
Can you please include grammar? I chose the correct words in order of hearing but still it was incorrect. (?)
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I dont know it is true or false, but I say.
In this English sentence: New is fish's adj. Cold is new fish's adj. It means the NEW is the older adj than COLD for fish.
In Arabic: Jadiid is samak's adj. Baarid is samak jadiid's adj.
No sound on the words when clicked. Would be nice to hear the word im trying to use in context of the sentence.
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Did you get this as a multiple choice reading question? No language, that I know of, on Duolingo has sound on the multiple choice reading questions, but you can always go/come to the discussions and hear the correct sentence there/here.
I gave answers to the words given in english in the exact manner but the result showed each word as opposite, like it was given cold new fish so i wrote barid jadid samak but it gave samak jadid barid, why and how?
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In English sentences we write adj before noun: new fish --- But in Arabic we write adj after noun: samak jadiid ---- Cold new fish = Samak jadiid baarid
These lessons are very good. Nothing is perfect, but for me, these come very close.
Still not understanding the way we put the words together, any help please. Shukran
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(COLD: last adj) + (NEW: first adj) + (FISH: noun) =
COLD NEW FISH
***(in English: Last adj+first adj+noun)
(SAMAK/fish: noun) + (JADIID/new: first adj) + (BAARID/cold: last adj) =
SAMAK JADIID BAARID (fish new cold)
***(in Arabic: Noun+first adj+last adj)
In this grammer, Arabic is the opposite of English.
Very useful, thank you for the explanation, it makes total sense now. Appreciated it. Warm regards,
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After you get out of the first four "Alphabet" lessons, put your mouse cursor over the words and you will see their meanings.
First of all, there is no rule for ordering adjectives in Arabic. As for the order, learn this trick. Just write the translation under every word and your sentence will be ready
This seems like the right grammatical order, didn't know they wanted word to word placement
I gave answers to the words given in english in the exact manner but the result showed each word as opposite, like it was given cold new fish so i wrote barid jadid samak but it gave samak jadid barid, why and how?
Grammar will take too long to learn. I think this way is the best way. It's like day by day learning, looks like learning from our daily life.