Lesson 30 – الدَّرْسُ الثَّلاثُونَ
Masculinity and Feminization of Verb- تَذْكِيرُ الْفِعْلِ وَتَأْنِيثُهُ
Types of Feminine- أَنْوَاعُ الْمُؤَنَّثِ
- We are still in lesson thirty of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- We will first discuss briefly the types of feminine nouns in the Arabic language. There are two types of feminine nouns in Arabic:
- Real feminine مُؤَنَّثٌ حَقِيقِيٌّ is that which begets or lays eggs, whether women, animals or birds.
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Dove | Cow | Giraffe | Zaynab | Girl | Woman | English |
- This means that a noun may not be suffixed with a feminine letter, such as Zaynab زَيْنَبُ but it is feminine by default.
- Figurative feminine مُؤَنَّثٌ مَجَازِيٌّ is an inanimate (non-living) noun ending with a feminine suffix, or does not end with a feminine suffix but is regarded as feminine within the Arabic language. For example:
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