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Demonstratives (continued) Place Demonstratives Place demonstratives also belong to the "nouns of pointing" أَسْماءُ الإِشارَةِ. Therefore, they are also three types (near, middle, and far).
1. Near Place Demonstratives The near place demonstrative that is used in Modern Standard Arabic is:
Other classical, near demonstratives are the following:
With the addition of haa'< of attention هَاْءُ التَّنْبِيْهِ:
2. Middle Place Demonstratives Those are obtained by adding the "vocative kaaf" كَاْفُ الْخِطَاْبِ . They refer to things that are neither near nor far but in between.
Classical ones:
With haa'< of attention هَاْءُ التَّنْبِيْهِ:
3. Far Place Demonstratives Those are all used in modern Arabic.
The last one contains the laam of distance لامُ الْبُعْدِ.
Examples: نَحْنُ هُنَاْ nahn(u) hunaa
= we (are) here Translation: we are here
هُنَاْكَ أَمْرٌ آخَرُ hunaak(a) 'amr(un) 'aakhar(u)
= there (is) a thing other Translation: there is another thing
ثَمَّةَ مُشْكِلَةٌ عَوِيْصَةٌ thammat(a) mushkila(tun) "aweesa(tun) = there (is) a problem a difficult Translation: there is a difficult problem
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