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:
    1. Real feminine مُؤَنَّثٌ حَقِيقِيٌّ is that which begets or lays eggs, whether women, animals or birds.

حَمَامَةٌ

بَقَرَةٌ

زَرَافَةٌ

زَيْنَبُ

بِنْتٌ

اِمْرُأَةٌ

Arabic

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.
    1. 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:

يَدٌ

شَمْسٌ

صَحْرَاءُ

جَامِعَةٌ

حَدِيقَةٌ

شَجَرَةٌ

Arabic

Hand

Sun

Desert

University

Garden

Tree

English