Word
ليس هناك لعبة مخيفة في هذه الملاهي.
Meaning
There is no scary ride in this amusement park.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of ليس هناك لعبة مخيفة في هذه الملاهي.
الal
the
هناكhunâka
there
فيfî
in / about, regarding
هذهhâdhihi
this (f)
Questions & Answers about ليس هناك لعبة مخيفة في هذه الملاهي.
Why do we use ليس هناك instead of just لا to say "there is no"?
In Arabic, هناك means "there is" or "there are". To make it negative, we put the negation word ليس in front of it. While لا is used to negate regular present tense verbs (like "I don't go"), ليس is used to negate nouns, adjectives, and existential phrases like هناك.
The word for "ride", لعبة, is feminine. Why don't we use the feminine form of the negative word, ليست, to say "there is no"?
When using the phrase "there is not" (ليس هناك), it is completely normal to keep ليس in its default masculine form, even if the noun following it is feminine. You might occasionally see ليست هناك, but ليس هناك is a fixed phrase widely used for both masculine and feminine nouns.
How do we know that لعبة مخيفة means "scary ride" rather than "the ride is scary"?
Because both لعبة (ride) and مخيفة (scary) are indefinite (neither has ال for "the"). In Arabic, an adjective must match its noun in "definiteness" to be part of the same phrase. If it were a full sentence meaning "the ride is scary", the noun would have "the" but the adjective would not: اللعبة مخيفة.
Why is the feminine word هذه (this) used before الملاهي (amusement park)?