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Question Words
كلمات الاستفهام
Interrogative words and question-forming vocabulary
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Most Common Question Words Words
أين هو؟
ayna huwa
Where is?
ما الذي يحدث؟
mā alladhī yahdath
What is happening?
كم؟
kam
How many?
ما نوع؟
mā naw
What kind?
لماذا هو؟
limādhā huwa
Why is it?
متى هو؟
matā huwa
When is it?
ماذا فعلت؟
mādhā faʿalt
What did you do?
من آخر؟
man ākhar
Who else?
ماذا تقصد؟
mādhā taqsid
What do you mean?
كيف هو؟
kayf huwa
How is it?
ماذا قلت؟
mādhā qult
What did you say?
هل ستفعل؟
hal satafʿal
Will you?
Arabic
Transliteration
English
أين هو؟
ayna huwa
Where is?
ما الذي يحدث؟
mā alladhī yahdath
What is happening?
كم؟
kam
How many?
ما نوع؟
mā naw
What kind?
لماذا هو؟
limādhā huwa
Why is it?
متى هو؟
matā huwa
When is it?
ماذا فعلت؟
mādhā faʿalt
What did you do?
من آخر؟
man ākhar
Who else?
ماذا تقصد؟
mādhā taqsid
What do you mean?
كيف هو؟
kayf huwa
How is it?
ماذا قلت؟
mādhā qult
What did you say?
هل ستفعل؟
hal satafʿal
Will you?
ماذا عنك؟
mādhā ʿanak
What about you?
هل تستطيع؟
hal tastatīʿ
Can you?
هل تفعل؟
hal tafʿal
Do you?
ماذا آخر؟
mādhā ākhar
What else?
من من؟
man min
From whom?
ما بك؟
mā bak
What's the matter?
أيهما؟
ayhuma
Which one?
هل؟
hal
Is it?
لمن؟
liman
To whom?
من كان ذاك؟
man kān dhāk
Who was that?
عن من؟
ʿan man
About whom?
هل فعلت؟
hal faʿalt
Did you?
هل يفعل؟
hal yafʿal
Does he?
كيف عن؟
kayf ʿan
How about?
كيف حدث؟
kayf hadath
How come?
كيف آخر؟
kayf ākhar
How else?
كيف كان؟
kayf kān
How was it?
هل يمكن لي؟
hal yumkin lī
May I?
هل يجب علي؟
hal yajib ʿalay
Should I?
ماذا عن؟
mādhā ʿan
What about?
ماذا عنهم؟
mādhā ʿanhum
What about them?
ماذا عننا؟
mādhā ʿannā
What about us?
ماذا أستطيع أن أفعل؟
mādhā astatīʿ an afʿal
What can I do?
ماذا تعرف؟
mādhā taʿrif
What do you know?
لماذا؟
limādhā
What for?
ماذا لو؟
mādhā law
What if?
ما الصحيح؟
mā as-sahīh
What is right?
ما الخطأ؟
mā al-khatā
What is wrong?
ماذا يجب أن أفعل؟
mādhā yajib an afʿal
What should I do?
ما الجديد؟
ma al-jadid?
What's new?
ما الجواب؟
mā al-jawāb
What's the answer?
ما الفائدة؟
mā al-fāidah
What's the point?
ما المشكلة؟
mā al-mushkilah
What's the problem?
ما السؤال؟
mā as-suāl
What's the question?
ما السبب؟
mā as-sabab
What's the reason?
ما رأيك؟
mā rayyak
What's your opinion?
ما كان ذاك؟
mā kān dhāk
What was that?
ماذا ستفعل؟
mādhā satafʿal
What will you do?