Lesson 14 - الدَّرْسُ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ

Continued

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• In this part of the lesson we will learn the plural form of "That" In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing) - the demonstrative pronoun for the distant objects. In the previous lessons we have already learnt the following demonstrative pronouns:

o   Lesson No. 2 section 1 states that ذَلِكَ  ("That") is the demonstrative pronoun used to refer to objects that are further away for masculine nouns

o   Lesson No. 7 section 2 states that تِلْكَ ("That") is the demonstrative pronoun used to refer to objects that are further away for feminine nouns.

• The plural form of these demonstrative pronouns (i.e. "those") is the same for the masculine and feminine nouns i.e.:

• The plural form of the demonstrative pronoun for the distant objects is أُولَـٰئِكَ as above. It is an indeclinable word and always takes a /fatħah/ on the last letter. It must however be remembered that أُولـٰئِكَ is used only for human beings and not for non human beings.
• Let’s use some examples for a better understanding of the rule: