The equational sentence

Unlike English or other European languages, equational sentences in Arabic

are constructed without the verb “to be” in the present tense. The absence of

the verb “to be” is not unique to Arabic, however; other languages, such as

Russian and Hebrew share this feature as well. We present below several patterns

in which the equational sentence is constructed:

Personal pronouns can act as subjects of equational sentences with proper

nouns, common nouns, adjectives and prepositional phrases as their predicates.