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Arabic Numbers: Cardinal, Ordinal, Fractions, and Percentage Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Aug 14, 2018
Arabic numbers الأَعْدَاد can be cardinal أَصْلِيَّة, ordinal تَرْتِيْبِيَّة, fractions كُسُور (plural of كَسْر), and percentage نِسْبَة مَئَوِيَّة. Ordinal numbers are the most difficult, even for native speakers of Arabic, because the gender-agreement with nouns they qualify is reverse. Cardinal numbers are straightforward as far as gender-agreement is concerned. This post presents lists of the…
Even more on numbers and agreement in Arabic Posted by aziza on May 29, 2009
In this post, I continue to explain rules related to numbers and their specification(التمييز). I deal specifically with a very confusing set of numbers, i.e. between 11 and 99. Although it is very easy to form the specification for this set of numbers, gender agreement can be a challenging aspect. When we talk…
More on numbers and agreement in Arabic Posted by aziza on May 25, 2009
When we talk about a number of things, e.g. five cars or seven friends, we need to use the appropriate form of the number and the appropriate noun to follow. The noun that follows numbers is called specification (التمييز). It is an indefinite noun that follows a number to specify what the number refers to. It has…
Numbers in Arabic Posted by aziza on May 21, 2009
Arabic Numbers (الأعداد) are given in the table below. When read on their own, they are usually in the feminine form, and the teens always end in the work (عشر), as for complex numbers in Arabic, they follow the system (units and tens), e.g. twenty one is (واحد وعشرون), literally like (one and twenty)…