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Yes/No Questions
If a question can be answered with yes or no, the sentence structure is identical to the one discussed in the previous section, with an additional word هل hal or a أ at the beginning of the sentence.
| English | Arabic |
|---|
| Is he here? | هل هو هنا hal huwa hunaa? |
| Is this big or small? | هل هذا كبير أم صغير؟ hal hadhaa kabeer am sagheer? |
Question Words
Question words replace the subject in the sentence.
| English | Arabic |
|---|
| What is this? | ما هذا maa hadhaa? |
| Who is this? | من هذا؟ man hadhaa |
| How are you? | كيف حالك kayfa Haluka |
| Where are you? | أين أنت ayna 'anta |
Using Personal Pronouns
If the predicate of the question is a noun or an adjective, the personal pronouns هو or هي are inserted between the question word and the predicate.
| English | Arabic |
|---|
| How is the health? | ما هي الصِحّة؟ maa hiya al-SiHHat |
| Who is the teacher? | من هو المُعلم؟ man huwa mu3allim |
Vocabularies
| Arabic | English |
|---|
| من | who |
| ما | what |
| كيف | how |
| أين | where |
| صِحّة | health |
| حال | condition |
| حالك | your state |
