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Word formation — adjective suffixes -ive/-al

Build the adjective with -ive or -al

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Forming adjectives with suffixes -ive/-al

The common mistakes

  • Wrong adjective suffix for the noun family

From the lesson

A tour guide calls a museum visit educative. A newspaper calls a country's exam system educational. Both words come from the same root, teach.

The vocabulary

  • educative/educational (تربوي)

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