Arabic Negation

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Arabic Negation

Learning the Arabic Negation is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Arabic language. But first we need to know what the role of Negation is in the structure of the grammar in Arabic.

Arabic negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement (I am happy) into its opposite denial (I am not happy).

In Arabic there are a few words for negation la لا,ma ما and لن lan. Lan is used to negate the future. In Arabic slang they use the negation ma plus sh ما ش the word being negated put in between, like in French ne – pas (je ne parle pas), for example ma 3araf sh ما عرفش I don’t know, ma 3ali sh معلش , this is a very common phrase meaning It doesn't matter. Here are some examples:

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Negation in Arabic has a logical pattern. Locate the Negation above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Arabic.

List of Negation in Arabic

Below is a list of the Negation and negative expressions in Arabic placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Arabic vocabulary.

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