Madina Arabic Book 1
LESSON 01 - الدَّرْسُ الأوَّلُ
This is /hadha/ هَـٰذَا
03 - 1 Ma Hadha?
مَا هَـٰذَا؟
What is This?
We have learnt how to say 'This is' using the phrase /hādhā/. Now, we will learn how to say 'What is this?' to ask a question followed by the answers to the questions In-Shā’-Allâh (God-willing).
In this part of lesson 1 we will learn the phraseمَا هَـٰذَا؟ which means "What's this". We shall then answer the questions with the phrase we learnt in the earlier parts, i.e. /hādhā/ هَـٰذَا.
We will also learn the phrase أَهَـٰذَا.....؟ which means "Is this...?", for example أَهَـٰذَا بَيْتٌ؟ which means "Is this a house?”.
In addition, we will learn the words for Yes and No in Arabic to answer these questions. The word for Yes in Arabic is نَعَمْ, and the word for No in Arabic is لا.
As we have already learnt, the Arabic script is read from right to left, please read the sentences below from right to left.
