Activity 3: Position words & Idaafa

Your vocabulary words that indicate position, like “in front of” and “behind” act as the first term of an idaafa. As a result, we typically make the second or final term of the idaafa definite, like in the following examples:

 المحل بجانب البيت  ; البيت بجانب سوق الفواكه

Recall the following words.