possession in Arabic Hi everyone, I'm here to improve my English speaking skills, but I was dragged into may notes of yours where you were practicing your new Arabic speaking skills. so, if I'm gonna write a note, let's make it authentic and helpful. Here's the problem that I noticed, most of you focus on learning new vocab., while native Arabic speakers who correct you "writing production" focus, in the first place, on structure. As for writing, let's talk about it a bit. 1- When you write try to focus on structure more than words, once you get the rule, it's easy to catch up words. 2- Here's a fat tip, possession in Arabic differs from English. For example, in English, you say "James' jacket" "Anne's ring" or " the ring of Anne". In Arabic, we say " خاتم آن" or "ring (n.) Anne" if you may translate it literally and structurally. Okay, why do we use it that way? The answer is: because we have a rule in Arabic which is called "Al idafa الإضافة" or addition. Once you added Anne to ring خاتم آن (Anne is added at the last) it becomes hers :). So, no more of Jenny's doll as جيني لعبة. The correct utterance is to say لعبة جيني . Hope I made it clear enough :). Next time, I 'll talk about nominal sentence in Arabic. Stay tuned.