Verb-like Particles in Arabic Language with Reference to English
Abstract
Allah Almighty distinguishes Arabic by making it as a container of His speech. Hence, it becomes eternal by the eternity of Allah and conserves by His immortality. So, Arabic is a unique language in terms of its grammatical and idiomatic structures, and in terms of its using of ways that English lacks due to the wide gap between the two languages.
Verb-like particles are considered as one of the peculiarities of Arabic which are unmatched in English. The nature, functions and meanings of verb-like particles are complicated since Arabic is flexible, and this flexibility enables it to have particles with more than one meaning. I'nna and its sisters are extensively used in Arabic. They play essential semantic and stylistic multiple roles. Some of the rare meanings and uses of verb-like particles are unmatched in English.