Levantine Arabic

Grammar: Pseudo verbs

Pseudo verbs are prepositions, that are used as verbs expressing possession or belonging.

They take possessive suffixes indicating the subject or the owner of something.

In order to express e.g. "to have", you say "at someone is/are" instead.

The following list of words is given with the suffix of 3rd person masculin singular.

بِدُّهبدهbiddohe want's
عِنْدُهعندهˁindohe has (general meaning)
مَعُه
مَعَاه
معه
معاه
maˁo
maˁāʰ
he has something with him
إلُه
لَإلُه
إله
لإله
'ilo
la-'ilo
something is his
تَبَعُه
تَاعُه
تبعه
تاعه
tabaˁo
tāˁo
something belongs to him