Breakdown of أشعر بحنين شديد حين نتصفح هذا الألبوم.
الal
the
هذاhâdhâ
this (m)
شديدshadîd
severe
شعر بsha'ara bi
to feel
تصفحtasaffuh
to browse
حينhîna
when, at the time (that)
ألبومalbûm
album
حنينhanîn
nostalgia
Questions & Answers about أشعر بحنين شديد حين نتصفح هذا الألبوم.
Why is حين followed directly by a verb (نتصفح) instead of a noun?
In this lesson's structure, temporal nouns like حين (when/time) can act as the first part of an Idafa (annexation) where the entire following clause acts as the second part (the mudaf ilayh). Here, the verbal clause نتصفح هذا الألبوم is grammatically annexed to حين.
Why do we say بحنين instead of using a direct object like حنينا?
The verb شعر (to feel) requires the preposition بـ to connect to the feeling. While English says "I feel nostalgia", Arabic literally says "I feel with nostalgia" (أشعر بـحنين).
If we were reading this with full vowels, what case ending would شديد take?
It would take the genitive ending (kasratayn). Because the preposition بـ puts حنين in the genitive case (حنينٍ), the adjective شديد must agree with the noun it describes and also take the genitive case (شديدٍ).
Could we drop the الـ from الألبوم and just say هذا ألبوم?
Not without changing the meaning. Saying هذا ألبوم means "this is an album". To make it "this album" so it can act as the direct object of "we browse", the noun following the demonstrative هذا must have the definite article الـ.
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