{"id":16549,"date":"2019-01-30T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=16549"},"modified":"2019-01-29T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:34:25","slug":"how-to-use-the-dual-form-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%92%d9%85%d9%8f%d8%ab%d9%8e%d9%86%d9%91%d9%8e%d9%89-in-arabic-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/how-to-use-the-dual-form-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%92%d9%85%d9%8f%d8%ab%d9%8e%d9%86%d9%91%d9%8e%d9%89-in-arabic-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the Dual form \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0645\u064f\u062b\u064e\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0649 in Arabic? Part two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going back to talking about the <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Dual<\/strong><\/span>, in this post we\u2019ll be focusing on applying the dual form to <strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">adjectives<\/span> <\/strong>and <strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">verbs<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s first look at <u>adjectives<\/u>: A dual noun is modified by a dual adjective. For example:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201ctwo Iraqi (male) students\u201d is <strong>\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0646 \u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0646<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201ctwo Iraqi (female) students\u201d is <strong>\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0646<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\">Remember<\/span><\/strong>: Any noun that is dual will have dual <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">agreement<\/span> for the gender of that noun.<\/p>\n<p>How would you say \u201ctwo short men\u201d and \u201ctwo tall women\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>(Please feel free to leave your answer in the comments!) ?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16550\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16550\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16550\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the number two through hand gesture\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Verbs<\/u>: Let\u2019s use the verb <strong>\u0643\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0628\u064e<\/strong> (past) and <strong>\u064a\u064e\u0643\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0628<\/strong> (present) for our examples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember in part one, we looked at the only two pronouns that take the dual form (<strong>\u0623\u0646\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong> and <strong>\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong>). There are actually <strong>3<\/strong> different verb endings for these dual pronouns:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0623\u0646\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong> (you two &#8211; both masculine and feminine)<\/p>\n<p><strong>.\u0623\u0646\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0627 \u0643\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0628\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong>\u00a0You (two) wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>.\u0623\u0646\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0643\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0628\u0627\u0646<\/strong>\u00a0You (two) are writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong> (they two &#8211; masculine)<\/p>\n<p><strong>.\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627 \u0643\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0628\u0627<\/strong>\u00a0They (two) wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>.\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0643\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0628\u0627\u0646\u0650<\/strong>\u00a0They (two) are writing.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the dual for \u201cthey\u201d is <strong>\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong> for both genders, the verb endings are different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627<\/strong> (they two &#8211; feminine)<\/p>\n<p><strong>.\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627 \u0643\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0628\u064e\u062a\u0627<\/strong>\u00a0They (two) wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>.\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0643\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0628\u0627\u0646\u0650<\/strong>\u00a0They (two) are writing.<\/p>\n<p>So, pretend you saw two women eating lunch at a caf\u00e9, how would you describe that?<\/p>\n<p>(Please feel free to leave your answer in the comments!) ?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What about things that come in pairs like hands, feet, ears, eyes, etc.? We use the dual too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hands: <strong>\u064a\u062f\u0627\u0646<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feet: <strong>\u0631\u0650\u062c\u0644\u0627\u0646<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ears: <strong>\u0623\u064f\u0630\u0646\u0627\u0646<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eyes: <strong>\u0639\u064a\u0646\u0627\u0646<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is still more to the dual form and its applications, but here, I wanted to give you a basic understanding of how the dual works with nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs. Let me know if you have any questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"photo of the number two through hand gesture\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/01\/gesture.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Going back to talking about the Dual, in this post we\u2019ll be focusing on applying the dual form to adjectives and verbs. Let\u2019s first look at adjectives: A dual noun is modified by a dual adjective. For example: \u201ctwo Iraqi (male) students\u201d is \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0646 \u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0646 \u201ctwo Iraqi (female) students\u201d is \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0646 Remember: Any noun&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/how-to-use-the-dual-form-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%92%d9%85%d9%8f%d8%ab%d9%8e%d9%86%d9%91%d9%8e%d9%89-in-arabic-part-two\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":16550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3525,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16549","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic-language","category-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16553,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions\/16553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}