أعطى علامة
“أعطى علامة” (аʿта ʿаляма) — to give a grade in Arabic. Phrase, level A1. The Arab grade is the familiar ʿalaamatiyy from "what is my grade"; here it stands without the "my". To give is "to place", the familiar verb in the past. In a live sentence: “المدرس أعطى علامة جيدة” — The teacher gave a good grade. Written with the characters أ, ع, ط, ى, ع, ل, ا, م, ة. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | أعطى علامة |
| Read in Latin letters | аʿта ʿаляма |
| Translation | to give a grade |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The Arab grade is the familiar ʿalaamatiyy from "what is my grade"; here it stands without the "my". To give is "to place", the familiar verb in the past
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- المدرس أعطى علامة جيدةаль-мударрис аʿта ʿаляма джайидаThe teacher gave a good grade
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to give a grade” in Arabic?
«أعطى علامة», read “аʿта ʿаляма”. In a live sentence: “المدرس أعطى علامة جيدة” — The teacher gave a good grade. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters أ, ع, ط, ى, ع, ل, ا, م, ة.
How is “أعطى علامة” written in Latin letters?
аʿта ʿаляма. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The Arab grade is the familiar ʿalaamatiyy from "what is my grade"; here it stands without the "my". To give is "to place", the familiar verb in the past. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.