Lesson 54 – الدَّرْسُ الرَّابِعُ وَالْخَمْسُونَ
Sound Feminine Plural - جَمْعُ المُؤَنَّث السَّالِم
Introduction - مُقَدِّمَةٌ
- This is lesson fifty four of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- In this lesson, we will study a new type of Arabic nouns – that is, the sound feminine plural.
- In this part we will learn the meaning of the Arabic sound feminine plural and how we can change a singular noun into the sound feminine plural form. View the following table:
| Picture | Plural | Translation | Singular |
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| /hā’ulā'i ŧâlibāt-un/ | This is a female student | /hādhihī ŧâliba-tun/ |
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| /hā’ulā’i mumarriđât-un/ | This is a nurse | /hādhihī mumarriđa-tun/ |
- We will also learn that there are certain words that can have a sound feminine plural under certain conditions. View the following examples of these nouns:
| Picture | Plural | Translation | Singular |
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| /ŧâlibātun/ | Female student | /ŧâlibatun/ |
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| /hā’ulā’i humu az-zaynabātu/ | This is my sister Zaynab. | /Hādhihī ukhtī zaynabu/ |
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| فِي العَالَمِ صَحْراواتٌ كَثِيرَةٌ /fī al-ξālami ŝaħrawātun kathīratun/ | Most of Egyptian land is desert | أَكْثَرُ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ صَحْراءُ /aktharu arđi miŝra ŝaħrâ'u/ |
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| هَؤُلاءِ أَخَواتِي الكُبْرَيَاتُ /hā’ulā’i akhawāti al-kubrayātu/ | This is my elder sister | /Hādhihī ukhtī al-kubrâ/ |
- we will also learn the declensions of the sound feminine plural and the difference between it and the feminine singular in terms of declension.