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What is the ضمير الفصل in Arabic?

A separate personal pronoun can be used to give emphasis in Arabic. It is called Damir al-fasl. Here is how it works.

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You can easily emphasize a اِسْم by adding the corresponding after the اِسْم you want to focus on. This is called ضَمِير الْفَصْل, the pronoun of separation, as it separates the subject from the predicate and provides space in between.

Let us look at some examples.

It is Khalid who sits there.خالِد هُوَ الْجالِسُ هُناكَ
The engineers were the ones responsible for the success of the project.كانَ الْمُهَنْدِسُونَ هُم الْمَسْؤُولِينَ عَنْ نَجاحِ الْمَشْرُوعِ
I have done my duty.قُمْتُ أَنا بالْواجِبِ
He wrote the lesson himself.كَتَبَ هُوَ الدَّرْسَ

Do you know use personal pronoun as direct objects – in the accusative case? They do look different.

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