FORMATION OF DUAL PRONOUNS IN ARABIC LANGUAGE (ضمائر المثنى)
By: Yusuf Basirat Bolanle
Dual Formation (تركيب المثنى)
Dual in Arabic Language is known as (المثنى). It refers to the entities which are only two in number.
Dual in Arabic language is usually formed by adding (ألف الإثنين) Dual-Alif to the end of singular form of pronouns, nouns and verbs.
In the case of the nouns and verbs, (ن) is always added to the Alif, while it can be dropped in some cases.
The formation of Dual can come in three ways, which are:
1. Dual Pronoun (ضمير المثنى)
The second person pronoun (أنتما), which is for both masculine and feminine genders has a suffix (ما) which indicates its duality. Likewise, the third person dual pronoun which is (هما) has a suffix of (ما) which makes it a dual pronoun for both masculine and famine genders.
Examples
المفرد
أنتَ
You
أنتِ
You
هو
He
هي
She
المثتى
أنتُما
You
هما
They
It is important to note that the pronouns remain the same regardless of their position in the sentence, because they don’t have parsing marks.
Dual Pronoun (ضمير المثنى) can be used as:
subject, object and possessive pronouns
- When they are used in the position of Subjects, functioning as the doers in the sentence, examples are:
هما يجلسان
They are sitting (dual)
أنتما تدرسان
You (dual) are studying (dual)
- When used in the position of objects, functioning as the receiver of the actions in the sentence, examples are:
ضربتُهما
I beat them (dual)
قرأْتُهما
I read them (dual)
- They can be used with the preposition in the sentence and function as the prepositional object, examples are:
ذهبتُ إليهما
I went to them (dual)
جلس الولد عليهما
The boy sat on them (dual)
- They can be used as the possessive pronouns in the sentence. examples are:
كتابُهما
Their book
سيّارتُهما
Their car
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