ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

ʾIʿrab

Okay kiddo, ʾiʿrab is like a special way of showing how words work in Arabic. It helps us know the function of the word in a sentence.

Just like how we can use different colored legos to build structures like houses or cars, we use different markings on words to show if they are a subject, object, or something else in a sentence.

These markings tell us important information about the sentence so we can understand what is happening. It's like a code! Just like how secret agents use codes to communicate with each other, Arabic speakers use ʾiʿrab to understand each other.

So next time you hear someone speaking Arabic, you can use your ʾiʿrab decoder to understand what they're saying! Cool, huh?