Lesson 18 – الدَّرْسُ الثَّامِنَ عَشَرَ
Continued
- We are still in lesson eighteen of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In this part of lesson we will learn the dual form of the Arabic personal pronouns (he, she). In Arabic language all types of pronouns have a dual form, not only demonstrative pronouns. We have already learnt the singular form of masculine and feminine personal pronouns for the third person (he / she) in (Lesson 4 section 7)
- In this part of the lesson we will learn the dual form of the Personal Pronouns for the third person representing the masculine and the feminine nouns, In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing).
- In order to change the personal pronouns for the third person representing masculine and feminine nouns to the Dual form, the following steps are involved:
- To change a personal pronoun for the third person representing a feminine noun (هِيَ) to مُثَنًّى i.e., Dual form, the genitive case /kasrah/ of the letter /ha/ is replaced with the nominative case /đammah/ and the last letter يَ i.e., a /Ya/ with a /fatħah/ is replaced with مَا i.e., /Meem/ with /fatħah/ and a long vowel /Alif/, e.g.:
- Let’s look at some more examples for a better understanding of the rule:
Picture | English | Arabic |
| He is a student They both are students | |
| She is a teacher They are both teachers | |
| This boy is poor, he is an orphan as well These two boys are poor, they are both orphans as well | |
| This girl is a student, she is very hard working These two girls are students, they are both very hard working | هَذِهِ الْبِنْتُ طَالِبَةٌ، هِيَ مُجْتَهِدَةٌ جِدًّا. هَاتَانِ الْبِنْتَانِ طَالِبَتَانِ، هُمَا مُجْتَهِدَتَانِ جِدًّا. |