From WikiLang

العربية Arabic
Family	Sub-family	Language of	Script
Afro-Asiatic	Central Semitic	Saudi Arabia, Syria, and 23 other countries. United Nations	عربي Arabic

In Arabic, there are two types of sentences: nominal sentences and verbal sentences.

Nominal sentences

الجملة الاسميةal-jumlatu l-ismiyyatu

These are sentences that do not have a verb.

Ex. البَيتُ جميلٌ al-bintu ğamīrun "the girl is beautiful" This is a simple example. It has all the necessary ingredients that make up these types of sentences and complete it's meaning. The first word is what is called a مُبتدأ. It's the noun that starts the sentence. The second word is what is known as a خَبَر. It informs us about the مبتدأ to complete the meaning of the sentence. Both noun cases here are nominative.

Verbal sentences

الجملة الفعليةal-jumlatu l-fi3liyyatu

Ex. أَكَلَ الوَلَدُ التُّفَّاحَةَ In this sentence, the very first word is a verb. And when you have a verb, you also have a subject. For some verbs, this is enough. Other verbs (transitive verbs) have objects as well.

Arabic pages
Introduction · Articles · Gender · Plurality · Adpositions · Pronouns · Sounds and Writing · Syntax · Verbs