Lesson 13 Notes

1. In English, adjectives have no plural form. We

say good man and good men, but in Arabic,
even adjectives have plural form.
2. In English, we have two types of plural forms:
Sound Plural Form the word retains its
original form.
Example: Book Books, Pen Pens
Broken Plural Form the original form of
the word is changed to a great extent
Examples: Man Men, Mouse Mice
In Arabic, we have these two plural forms as
well.
3. In Arabic, the sound plural is either masculine
or feminine.
The sound masculine plural has at the end.
Example:
The sound feminine plural has at the end.
Example:
4. The broken plural: Unlike in English, the broken
plural is widely used in Arabic. There are more

than twenty patterns of the broken plural.

Some are given in this lesson. They are:

5. The plural of and is

Example:

Note that is usually used with human

beings and rarely with objects.
6. The plural for is . Unlike , is only used
for human beings.
Example:
The plural of is .
Example:
7. they went
PART B
8. The plural of ( she) is ( they)
Example:
The plural of ( her) is ( their)
Example:
9. they went (f)
10. Note the following broken plurals: