Word
حذفت أختي كل التعليقات السيئة والمسيئة.
Meaning
My sister deleted all the bad and offensive comments.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of حذفت أختي كل التعليقات السيئة والمسيئة.
الal
the
وwa
and
أختukht
sister
يi
my / me (after a preposition)
Questions & Answers about حذفت أختي كل التعليقات السيئة والمسيئة.
Why are the adjectives السيئة and المسيئة in the feminine singular form when they describe the plural noun التعليقات?
In Arabic, non-human plural nouns like التعليقات (comments) are treated grammatically as feminine singular. Therefore, any adjectives describing them must also be feminine singular.
The words السيئة (bad) and المسيئة (offensive) look and sound very similar. Are they related?
Yes, they both share the same root, س و ء, which relates to badness or evil. السيئة is a standard adjective, while المسيئة is the active participle of the Form IV verb أساء (to do wrong or to offend).
Since the comments are the object being deleted, shouldn't their adjectives take the accusative case?
The direct grammatical object of the verb here is actually the word كل (all). The word التعليقات comes immediately after كل in a possessive structure called an Idafa, which forces it into the genitive case. Because the adjectives describe التعليقات and not كل, they match its genitive case.
What is the singular form of التعليقات, and what verb pattern does it come from?
The singular is تعليق, which is the verbal noun (masdar) of the Form II verb علّق (to comment). You can spot Form II verbal nouns easily because they very commonly follow this same تفعيل (taf'eel) pattern.