Negating Equational Sentences

Negating Equational Sentences. This type of Arabic sentence is negated by using  ليسَ. Remember that the predicate noun or adjective has to be in the accuasative case.

    The professor is not Egyptian.         ليسَ الاستاذ ُ مصريَّاً.

30. The Subject markers for verbs in the past tense are suffixed to the verb stem in order to demonstrate subject/verb agreement.

      They are:

هو (-َ) ، هي (ـَتْ) ، أنتَ  (ـْتَ)  ، أنتِ (ـْتِ) ، أنا (ـْتُ)

هُم  (ـوا) ، هنَّ (-ْنَ) ، أنتم (ـْتُم) ، أنتُنَّ (ـْـتُنَّ) ، نحنُ (ـْـنا)