Questions & Answers about هذه قاعدة مهمة أيضا.
Why do we use هذه instead of هذا for "this"?
The word for rule, قاعدة, ends with the letter taa marboota (ة), which makes it a feminine noun. Because the noun is feminine, we must use the feminine word for "this", which is هذه.
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
Arabic does not use a word for "is" or "are" in the present tense. You simply put the subject هذه (this) right next to the noun قاعدة (a rule) to mean "This is a rule."
Why does the adjective مهمة (important) come after the noun, and why does it also end in ة?
In Arabic, adjectives always come after the noun they describe. They also have to match the gender of that noun. Since قاعدة is feminine, we add the feminine ending ة to the adjective, making it مهمة.
The word أيضا (too) has two little lines at the top of the last letter. What do they do?
Those two lines are called tanween, and they add an "an" sound to the end of the word. That is why it is pronounced "aydan". For now, you can just memorize أيضا as a set vocabulary word meaning "also" or "too".
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