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مُبْتَدِئ

beginner /mubˈtadiʔ/

nounB2#3416 most common

Also: novice, newcomer (to a skill or field)

Example sentences

أنا مبتدئ.
I am a beginner.
هذا الكتاب للمبتدئين.
This book is for beginners.
أنا لاعب مبتدئ في كرة القدم.
I am a beginner player in football.
صمم المعلم دورة خاصة بالمبتدئين لتعليم البرمجة.
The teacher designed a special course for beginners to teach programming.
على الرغم من أنها مبتدئة في هذا المجال، إلا أنها أنجزت المشروع بامتياز.
Although she is a beginner in this field, she completed the project with excellence.
نادراً ما يستطيع مبتدئٌ أن يجاري خبيراً مخضرماً في تعقيدات هذه الحرفة.
Rarely can a beginner rival a seasoned expert in the intricacies of this craft.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeمُبْتَدِئٌمُبْتَدِئُونَ
Genitiveمُبْتَدِئٍمُبْتَدِئِينَ
Accusativeمُبْتَدِئًامُبْتَدِئِينَ
Vocativeيَا مُبْتَدِئُيَا مُبْتَدِئُونَ

Word family

بدأto begin, start
ابتدأto begin, commence, initiate
بدايةa beginning, a start
مبتدأgrammatical subject of a nominal sentence; a starting point
ابتدائيelementary, primary, initial

Etymology

مُبْتَدِئ is the active participle of the Form VIII verb ابتدأ (ibtadaʾa, "to begin"), itself built from the triliteral root ب-د-أ (b-d-ʾ), "to start, originate." Form VIII adds an infixed ت after the first root letter, often giving a reflexive or self-directed sense, so the word originally suggests one who sets something in motion for himself. Because Arabic is a Semitic language, it has no Indo-European ancestry to trace.

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