Table 7. Negation particles and their effects in Arabic (Alkhalifa & Rodríguez, 2009).
| Negation Particle |
BuckWalter Transliteration |
Category | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| لم | lam | Group A | Affects the verb after the particle |
| لن | Lan | Group A | Affects the verb after the particle |
| لا | lA | Group A | Affects the verb after the particle |
| ما | mA | Group A | Affects the verb after the particle |
| ليس | laysa | Group B | Affects the following two nouns or affects the following verb. |