{"id":146,"date":"2010-01-06T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=146"},"modified":"2014-06-20T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:24:27","slug":"arabic-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/arabic-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic nouns: Proper nouns vs. Generic nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are 2 types of Arabic nouns, with sub-types of each type. The first type is proper nouns (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0645<\/span>) which refer to a particular person, place, etc. Examples of these are (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f<\/span>), (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u064a\u0648\u0633\u064f\u0641<\/span>), (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0645\u064e\u0643\u0651\u0629<\/span>), (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646<\/span>), etc. These nouns are definite because they are names of particular people or places; therefore, they cannot be made definite by having (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0644<\/span>) at the beginning or a possessive noun at the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The second type is generic nouns (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0633\u0645 \u062c\u0646\u0633<\/span>) which is a noun that refers to a thing with no specific reference, e.g. (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0631\u062c\u0644<\/span>) \u2018man\u2019, (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0634\u062c\u0631\u0629<\/span>) \u2018tree\u2019, (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u062d\u0635\u0627\u0646<\/span>) \u2018horse\u2019, etc. These nouns do not refer to a particular man, tree or horse, but to any noun that belongs to the relevant class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2 types of Arabic nouns, with sub-types of each type. The first type is proper nouns (\u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0645) which refer to a particular person, place, etc. Examples of these are (\u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f), (\u064a\u0648\u0633\u064f\u0641), (\u0645\u064e\u0643\u0651\u0629), (\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646), etc. These nouns are definite because they are names of particular people or places; therefore, they cannot be made&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/arabic-nouns\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3525,6],"tags":[3533,3543,376393],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-arabic-language","category-grammar","tag-arabic-nouns","tag-classification","tag-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}