Arabic Language Blog
Menu
Search

Tag Archives: noun

Arabic Number-gender Agreement and More Posted by on Aug 16, 2018

As stated in the previous post, the agreement between the gender of the noun and the number that qualifies it is confusingly difficult for native speakers and learners of Arabic alike. This is especially true with cardinal numbers الأَعْدَاد الأَصْلِيَّة. With other number types, the agreement is straightforward and always requires the addition of the…

Continue Reading

Forms of Nominal and Verbal Duals in Arabic Posted by on May 22, 2018

As for number, nouns الأَسْمَاء and verbs الأَفْعَال in Arabic have three forms: singular مُفْرَد, dual مُثَنَّى, and plural جَمْع. The singular refers to a single entity, the dual refers to two entities, and the plural refers to three or more. Forming the dual and plural forms from the singular is usually straightforward. This is…

Continue Reading

Practice agreement Posted by on Apr 20, 2015

In Arabic, noun adjective agreement is a very important concept. You need to make sure that nouns and adjectives agree with each other in number, gender and definiteness for your sentences to be grammatical and meaningful. In this post, I present you with 10 sentences that you need to complete with the adjectives provided. You…

Continue Reading

Practice agreement Posted by on Apr 19, 2015

In Arabic, subject verb agreement is a very important concept. You need to make sure that subjects and verbs agree with each other in number and in gender for your sentences to be grammatical and meaningful. In this post, I present you with 10 sentences that you need to complete with the verbs provided. You…

Continue Reading