qalam azraq a blue pen

waraqa bayd a white paper

Great! Now do the opposite; translate the phrase from English into Arabic. After a pause, youll hear the
right answer, which you should repeat for practice.

color laun

book kitb

green akhDar

black aswad

shoes Hidhaa

shirt qams

Now translate the following personal pronouns and nouns into Arabic, and then make sentences using
some of the descriptive and color adjectives youve just learned. For example, if you hear you, tall, you
should say anta Taweel or anti Taweela. Repeat the correct answers for practice.

I, happy ana sad./ana sada.

you, tall anta Tawl./anti Tawla.

he, small huwa Saghr.

she, beautiful hiya jamla.

a pen, blue qalam azraq.

a paper, white waraqa bayd.

PARTING WORDS

ana sadun jiddan! I am very happy! You have learned a lot about descriptive and color adjectives in this
lesson. But there are, of course, many more colors and adjectives out there that you can learn on your
own to expand your vocabulary. And you might nd doing that very interesting, jadir bi-l ihtimam, and
maybe even amusing, musalli! Have fun! mughamarat sada!

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