Breakdown of في رأيي، القميص الأزرق أجمل.
الal
the
أزرقazraq
blue
أجملajmal
most beautiful
قميصqamîs
shirt
في رأييfi ra'yi
in my opinion
Questions & Answers about في رأيي، القميص الأزرق أجمل.
Why doesn't أجمل have a word like "more" before it?
In Arabic, you do not use a separate word for "more" with common adjectives. Instead, you change the adjective into a special comparative pattern that starts with an alif. The base adjective جميل (beautiful or nice) changes its shape to become أجمل (nicer).
Why do both القميص and الأزرق have ال (the), but أجمل does not?
This is how Arabic builds a sentence with the word "is". القميص الأزرق (the blue shirt) is the subject, and since "blue" describes that specific shirt, both words need the definite article ال. أجمل (nicer) is the predicate, which is the new information you are giving. Leaving ال off the predicate is what creates the invisible "is": "The blue shirt is nicer."
How exactly is في رأيي built?
It translates very literally! The word في means "in". The noun for "opinion" is رأي. To say "my opinion", you attach the possessive suffix ـي (my) to the end of the noun, making رأيي.
What is the mark over the alif in the middle of رأيي?
That is a hamza, which represents a glottal stop. This sounds like the tiny catch in your throat in the middle of the English phrase "uh-oh". When a hamza sits in the middle of a word right after a short "a" vowel, spelling rules usually require it to sit on an alif, written as أ.
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