Word

Particle

Masculine/Feminine

All masculine except:

1.
2.

Ends with
Deemed feminine

3.

Female names

4.

Paired Limbs

Noun

Verb

Definite/Indefinite

+no tanween

the lesson

Number

Dual

Plural

no+ tanween

a lesson

NB: Never a if

Broken Plural

Sound Feminine
Plural

Singular

Sound Plural

Noun basics

Sound Masculine
Plural

Word

Eng/Ar

Eng/Ar

Eng/Ar

Eng/Ar

All masculine except:

1.
2.

Ends with
Deemed feminine

3.

Female names

4.

Paired Limbs

Eng/Ar

+no tanween

Eng/Ar

E.g
a lesson

NB: Never a if

Noun basics

Plural

no+ tanween

E.g.

the lesson

Broken Plural

Dual

Singular

Sound Plural

Eng/Ar

Eng/Ar
E.g.

E.g.

E.g.

The tall man

The describing word / adjective

The thing being described

Translate the following into Arabic

1. the small house

2 a small house
3. two small houses
4. the two small houses
5. the two tall trees

6. a tall tree
7. the tall tree

9. a fast car
10. the two fast cars
11. the fast car

13. two fast cars

14. a big baby

15. two big babies

16. the big baby

17. the two big babies

18. a short man

19. the short man

20. two short men

How to indentify a


&
1

Must be two words. The second describing the first

The

must always agree in four things:
&

Gender: Both male or both female

End casing: Both must have the same end casing or equivalents

N Number: Both single or both dual or both plural

D Definiteness: Both definite or both indefinite

Gender: Both male or both female

End casing: Both must have the same end casing or equivalents

Both Dhammas

Both Fathas

Both Kasrahs

Both -oona



Both - eena

End casing: Both must have the same end casing or equivalents
Rule: =

Rule: =

Rule:
=

Number: Both single or both dual or both plural

Definiteness: Both definite or both indefinite

 ) is

( Exception: The plural of a non-human thing

usually treated as a single feminine word

Sing fem

Sing fem

Sing fem

what

will make you

know

And what

the calamity

What (is)

The calamity

the moths

like

man

will be

A day

the calamity (is)

carded (spread
out)

wool

like

the mountains

And will be

scattered

life

He will be in

his scales

is heavy

his home

his scales

is light

he who

As for

blissful

blazing

a fire

it is?

what

and what will

make you know

pit in hell

he who

As for

in

pleased

with their
striving

radiant

on that day

Faces

vain talk

in it

hear

Will not

lofty

a paradise

raised

couches

in it

running

a spring

in it

spread

And carpets

set in rows

And cushions

placed

and goblets