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Sound Masculine Plural
By ArabicTree | August 29, 2007
In Arabic, the masculine plural forms on a few different patterns; one of them is called the sound masculine pattern–sound meaning the original word is still completely intact in the plural. The way you recognize this is that the word ends with -uwna (-وُنَ)
As an example, the following words all fall under this pattern:
مُهَندِسٌ - مُهَندِسُونَ (muhandisuwna - engineers)
مُدَرِّسٌ - مُدَرِّسُونَ (mudarrisuwna - teachers)
فَلَّاحٌ - فَلَّاحُونَ (fallahuwna - farmers)
مُجتَهِدٌ - مُجتَهِدُونَ (mujtahiduwna - hard workers)
مُسلِمٌ - مُسلِمُونَ (muslimuwna - Muslims)
Note that this is the marfoo‘ case; in the mansoob or majruwr case, the word ends with -iyna (ينَ-) instead to show the change of case. For example, the above five become:
مُهَندِسِينَ (muhandisiyna)
مُدَرِّسِينَ (mudarrisiyna)
فَلَّاحِينَ (fallaahiyna)
مُجتَهِدِينَ (mujtahidiyna)
مُسلِمِينَ (Muslimiyna)
Masculine words appear in a few other broken masculine patterns; but that’s a topic for another day.
Topics: Beginner, Grammar, Vocabulary |
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