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جُمْلَة

sentence /ˈdʒum.la/

nounB1#2602 most common

Also: whole, total sum, wholesale (in the phrase بالجملة)

Example sentences

هذه جملة بسيطة.
This is a simple sentence.
اكتب جملة عن يومك.
Write a sentence about your day.
هل يمكنك ترجمة هذه الجملة إلى الإنجليزية؟
Can you translate this sentence into English?
تتكون الجملة العربية من فعل وفاعل ومفعول به.
The Arabic sentence consists of a verb, a subject, and an object.
يبيع هذا المحل البضائع بالجملة لا بالتجزئة.
This shop sells goods wholesale, not retail.
من الناحية النحوية، تنقسم الجملة إلى جملة اسمية وجملة فعلية حسب نوع الكلمة التي تبدأ بها.
Grammatically, a sentence is divided into a nominal sentence and a verbal sentence, depending on the type of word it starts with.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeجُمْلَةٌجُمَلٌ
Genitiveجُمْلَةٍجُمَلٍ
Accusativeجُمْلَةًجُمَلًا
Vocativeيا جُمْلَةُيا جُمَلُ

Word family

جميلbeautiful
جمالbeauty
إجماليtotal, overall
مُجملsummary, overall picture
بالجملةwholesale, in bulk

Etymology

جملة comes from the Arabic root ج-م-ل (j-m-l), which carries the sense of gathering something into one complete whole. The noun first meant a total or an entirety, and from there it came to mean a complete grammatical unit: a sentence. The same root gives جميل (beautiful) and جمال (beauty), an old link between the idea of wholeness and the idea of pleasing form.

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