ISM Name of a person, place, thing, idea, adjective, adverb/mood and more.

STATUS NUMBER GENDER TYPE

FORMS 1, PAIR, PLURAL FEMININE PROPER

• Raf’ ‫ رﻓﻊ‬- Doer of act • Masculine Chart (pg 6) • Real Feminine (biological • Words with ‫ال‬
• Nasb ‫ – ﻧﺼﺐ‬Detail of act • Feminine Chart (pg 6) feature) • Proper names
• Jarr ‫ – ﺟ ّﺮ‬After ‘of’ • Brkn Plural Chart (pg • Fake Feminine (by usage in • Pronouns
language) • Pointing Words
1. Words ending with ‫ى ة‬ • ‫ اﻟﺬي‬words
HOW TO TELL BROKEN PLURALS and in some cases ‫ﺁء‬ • The one being called
2. Body Parts in Pairs • The Mudhaf if M.I. is
•
َُِ ًٌٍ
Human BP’s may be 3. Broken Plurals proper
• Ending sounds considered Singular 4. Words from the story (pg
Feminine 12)
• Ending Combinations ‫ﻦ‬ َ ‫ ِﻳ‬,‫ن‬
َ ‫ و‬etc.
• Non-Human BP’s must be
• Pronouns have their own rules: considered Singular
1. If by themselves, then Raf’ Feminine
2. If attached then ‘N’ or ‘J’.
• Both of the above are rules
i. if attached to an Ism or
of grammar, not translation.
Harf of Jarr, then Jarr
ii. If attached to a Harf of
Nasb, then Nasb. IMPORTANT POINTS

WEIGHT • The masculine pairs &

• Heavy (Considered Normal). All
charts on page 6 are heavy.
• Light (Considered Unusual) A
light word cannot have the ‘n’
sound either coming from
tanween or from the letter ‫ ن‬used
at the end of some combinations
from page 6.
plurals (pg 6, first chart) are
inclusive of both genders
• The feminine pairs & plurals
are exclusively feminine
• Non-Human Feminine
plurals like ‫ت‬
ٌ ‫ ﺁﻳﺎ‬may be
treated singular feminine
also.

FLEXIBILITY

• Fully Flexible (All charts on pg 6)

• Partly Flexible (No ِ

sound,
Always Light)
1. Foreign Names
2. Location Names
3. Unusual Names
• Non-Flexible (Whether R, N, or J,
they look exactly the same). Only
Context can tell what the actual
status is in this case.