In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful. If you are unable to see arabic text please go to main menu of your internet browser and follow the steps: View --> Encoding --> More --> Unicode (UTF-8). Inshallah this will help you. If you are still unable to see the arabic text please click below for this lesson: http://www.madinaharabic.com/Arabic_Language_Course/Lessons/MB1_Lesson_005/MB1_L5_section_007.htm You can find previous missed Lesson at: www.madinaharabic.com (٥) الدرسُ الخامسُ - Lesson 5 In this part of lesson No. 5 we will Insha Allah (God Willing) learn about the following things: Vocative Particle: A word that is used for calling someone is called vocative particle and is called حَرْفُ النِّدَاءِ or simply النِّدَاءِ in Arabic language usually it is "يَا". The word followed by the vocative particle is called الْمَنَادِي and it takes the nominative case. However it takes only one dhammah whether it is definite or indefinite e.g., in order to call a boy it is said يَا وَلَدُ and not يَا وَلَدٌ. Carefully read the following text and take a particular look of the vowel endings of the words: اللهُ: يا اللهُ Allah: O Allah أُستاذٌ: يا أُستاذُ A Teacher: O teacher عبّاسٌ: يا عبّاسُ Abbas: O Abbas شيخٌ: يا شيخُ A Shaikh: O shaikh رجلٌ: يا رجلُ A Man: O Man ياسرٌ: يا ياسرُ Yasir: O Yasir عمـّارٌ: يا عمّـارُ Ammar: O Ammar دكْتُورٌ: يا دكْتـُورُ A doctor: O doctor خالدٌ: يا خالدُ Khalid: O Khalid عليٌ: يا عليُ Ali: O Ali
