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The verbs in the first column clearly have the ‘state’ meaning: they describe being in the position of standing/sitting for a particular amount of time. Now, not all pairs of this kind are clearly distinguished in English. The verbs in the first column (meaning 1) all express a state, while the verbs in the second column (meaning 2) express the action that brings that state into being. The two different meanings are obviously closely related. Specifically, we’ll be thinking about verbs like the following, which typically correspond to two different verbs in English: In this post we’ll be looking briefly at a feature of the Arabic lexicon. His English is quite limited Double-meaning verbs

(he wants to buy a stall appropriate to his standing) His ambitions are modest: he wants to buy a stall Often it works to downplay the quality in question: (stretch your legs out in accordance with the length of your blanket) (there are as many chairs as there are people) The lack of an exact equivalent in English makes translating these sentences closely quite tricky: It means something like ‘in a number/on a level appropriate to’. No matter how much I work, it won’t work outģala 2add is trickier. She doesn’t love me as much as I love her Its conjunction counterpart – used when what follows is a sentence and not a noun or pronoun – is قد ما ‪ 2add ma: (a proverb referring to people with a very high opinion of themselves)īy extension, it can also mean ‘up to’, ‘capable of dealing with’, etc: I don’t hate anything as much as I hate these people For an English speaker its most useful function is probably to provide an easy way of translating ‘as X as’: In this post we’re going to look at two very useful and versatile prepositions: قد ‪ 2add and على قد ‪ 3ala 2add.Ģadd generally means ‘as much as’.