SOUND MASCULINE PLURAL FORMS IN ARABIC LANGUAGE (1)
BY: Yusuf Basirat Bolanle
In Arabic language, the plurals are divided into sound and broken plurals. in this lesson, we are going to discuss the sound plural for masculine only.
Plural (الجمع)
Plural in Arabic Language is known as (الجمع); it refers to the entities which are more than two in number.
In Arabic language, the nouns (الأسماء), the verbs (ألأفعال) and the Pronouns (الضمائر) have three forms, they are: (مفرد) singular, (مثنى) dual, and (جمع) plural.
the (مفرد) refers to a single item, the (مثنى) refers to two items and the (جمع) refers to three or more entities.
Sound Masculine Plural
The sound masculine plural is known in Arabic language as (جمع المُذَكَّر السّالم). They are those plurals that are formed by adding a suffix which are plural makers to the end of their singulars. This is because the sound masculine plural are always regular by adding (ون) or (ين) to their singular forms.
The formation of Sound Masculine Plural can come in three ways, which are:
( ضمائر الجمع المذكر السالم)
The masculine plural pronoun for the first person is (نحن) “We”, while that of the second person is (أنتم) “You” and The third person is (هم) “They”
Examples
plural (الجمع) singular (المفرد)
We نحن I أنا
You أنتم you أنت
They هم He هو
The Masculine Plural Pronoun (ضمير الجمع المذكر السالم) 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:
We are sitting نحن نجلس
They are sitting هم يجلسون
You are studying أنتم تدرسون
- When used in the position of objects, functioning as the receiver of the actions in the sentence. Examples are:
I beat them ضربتهم
I read them قرأتهم
- They can be used with the preposition in the sentence and function as the prepositional object. Examples are:
I went to them ذهبت إليهم
The boy sat on them جلس الولد عليهم
- They can be used as the possessive pronouns in the sentence. examples are:
Our book كتابنا
Their book كتابهم
Our car سيارتنا
Their car سيارتهم
Note:
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.
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