{"id":12293,"date":"2017-11-24T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T08:48:41","slug":"plural-or-singular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/plural-or-singular\/","title":{"rendered":"Plural or singular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some English words are always plural, e.g.\u00a0 trousers,\u00a0 jeans, socks, scissors, tweezers, glasses, spectacles, among others.<\/p>\n<p>When translating these words into Arabic, we have singular nouns, e.g.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>trousers = \u0633\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0644\u00a0\/ \u0628\u0646\u0637\u0627\u0644<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0644 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631 \u062c\u062f\u0627\u064b.<\/p>\n<p>These trousers are very short.<\/p>\n<div class=\"irc_mutc iX76XpF3LjO4-s4mcypHTTek\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15231\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/trousers-clothing-men-s-pants-2685231\/\" aria-label=\"Trousers 2685231 960 720 350x233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15231\"  alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/trousers-2685231_960_720-350x233.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/trousers-2685231_960_720-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/trousers-2685231_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/trousers-2685231_960_720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from https:\/\/pixabay.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>jeans = \u062c\u064a\u0646\u0632<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u0647\u0644 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0646\u0632 \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u061f<\/p>\n<p>Are these jeans new?<\/p>\n<p>socks = \u062c\u0648\u0631\u0628<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u0641\u0642\u062f\u062a \u062c\u0648\u0631\u0628\u064a \u062a\u062d\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0631\u064a\u0631.<\/p>\n<p>I lost my socks under the bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>scissors = \u0645\u0642\u0635<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u0623\u0639\u0637\u0646\u064a \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u0635.<\/p>\n<p>Give me these scissors.<\/p>\n<p>tweezers = \u0645\u0644\u0642\u0637<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0631\u0627\u062d \u064a\u062d\u062a\u0627\u062c \u0645\u0644\u0642\u0637 \u062c\u0631\u0627\u062d\u064a \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f.<\/p>\n<p>The surgeon needs new surgical tweezers.<\/p>\n<p>glasses, spectacles = \u0646\u0638\u0627\u0631\u0629<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u0647\u0630\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0638\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u063a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u062c\u062f\u0627\u064b.<\/p>\n<p>These glasses are very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In all these cases, the Arabic words are singular and al the accompanying agreement rules reflect this, e.g. the use of (\u0647\u0630\u0627), while the English words are plural and the accompanying agreement rules reflect this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/178226-200.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/178226-200.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/178226-200-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p>Some English words are always plural, e.g.\u00a0 trousers,\u00a0 jeans, socks, scissors, tweezers, glasses, spectacles, among others. When translating these words into Arabic, we have singular nouns, e.g. &nbsp; trousers = \u0633\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0644\u00a0\/ \u0628\u0646\u0637\u0627\u0644 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0644 \u0642\u0635\u064a\u0631 \u062c\u062f\u0627\u064b. These trousers are very short. jeans = \u062c\u064a\u0646\u0632 \u0647\u0644 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0646\u0632 \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u061f Are these jeans new? socks = \u062c\u0648\u0631\u0628&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/plural-or-singular\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3525,6,13],"tags":[8304,462722,376397],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic-language","category-grammar","category-vocabulary","tag-arabic-grammar","tag-plural-or-singular","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions\/15232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}