Grammar Rules القواعد النحوية
Nouns
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Nouns
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Arabic nouns are either masculine or feminine. Usually when referring to a male, a masculine noun is usually used and when referring to a female, a feminine noun is used. In most cases the feminine noun is formed by adding a special character, the ta marbuta ـة ة, to the end of the masculine noun. Feminine Singular
Masculine Singular
Masculine Singular
teacher
مُعلِّمة
مُعلِّم
مُعلِّم
professor/teacher
أستاذة
أستاذ
أستاذ
student
طالبة
طالب
طالب
friend
صَديقة
صَديق
صَديق
colleague
زميلة
زميلٌ
زميلٌ
muslim
مسلمة
مسلم
مسلم
thinker
مفكّرة
مفكّر
مفكّر
translator
مترجمة
مترجم
مترجم
beginner
مبتدئـة
مبتدىء
مبتدىء
expert
خبيرة
خبير
خبير
envoy, reporter
(someone sent on a mission)
(someone sent on a mission)
مراسلة
مراسل
مراسل
writer, author
مؤلفة
مؤلف
Sometimes the noun used to refer to a male and the noun used for a female are completely different.مؤلف
woman
امرأة
man
رَجُلٌ
It's not just nouns referring to people that have gender. Inanimate objects (doors, houses, cars, etc.) is either masculine or feminine. Whether an inanimate noun is masculine or feminine is mostly arbitrary. A lot of inanimate nouns ends in ta marbuta. When this is the case you know it is feminine.table
طاولة
city
مدينة
Unfortunately, not all feminine nouns end in ta marbuta. Whenever you learn a new word, and that word is a noun, it's best if you learn it's gender too. Here are some masculine nouns..book
كتاب
nose
أنف
and here are some feminine nouns..wind
ريح
desert
صحراء
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