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    1) The document outlines rules for determining the gender, number, and flexibility of Arabic words. 2) Gender is determined by the ending of words, with suffixes like -a or -ah usually indicating feminine and suffixes like -un indicating masculine. 3) Number can be singular, plural, or dual. Broken plurals are irregular plural forms that may indicate humans, places, or other categories. 4) Flexibility refers to a word's ability to take grammatical endings. Words can be fully flexible, partly flexible, or non-flexible. Partly flexible words may become fully flexible in certain contexts.

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    Learn the grammatical rules of the Arabic Ism.

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    1) The document outlines rules for determining the gender, number, and flexibility of Arabic words. 2) Gender is determined by the ending of words, with suffixes like -a or -ah usually indicating feminine and suffixes like -un indicating masculine. 3) Number can be singular, plural, or dual. Broken plurals are irregular plural forms that may indicate humans, places, or other categories. 4) Flexibility refers to a word's ability to take grammatical endings. Words can be fully flexible, partly flexible, or non-flexible. Partly flexible words may become fully flexible in certain contexts.

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    ISM Mindmap

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    1) The document outlines rules for determining the gender, number, and flexibility of Arabic words. 2) Gender is determined by the ending of words, with suffixes like -a or -ah usually indicating feminine and suffixes like -un indicating masculine. 3) Number can be singular, plural, or dual. Broken plurals are irregular plural forms that may indicate humans, places, or other categories. 4) Flexibility refers to a word's ability to take grammatical endings. Words can be fully flexible, partly flexible, or non-flexible. Partly flexible words may become fully flexible in certain contexts.

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    Names of colours (m or f):

    Comparative (m or f):



    Body defects:

    Non-Arab names, unless it has three


    letters with a sukoon in the middle.

    Arab prophets:





    : Feminine
    because the Arabs said so!
    Broken plurals and all
    non-human plurals

    Names of places,
    except those spelled
    with 3 letters, eg:

    Words which are partly flexible

    A partly-flexible ism becomes


    fully flexible if it is a mudaf or if
    is put in front of it

    =
    : turns most
    isms into feminine,

    :

    =
    feminine superlatives

    =

    : feminine
    colours and feminine body
    defects , .

    Signs of feminine

    Feminine:
    Real fem vs.
    Fake fem

    Long broken plurals with


    an alif in the middle:



    ,
    .

    Gender

    Can't be heavy or
    take a kasra

    Human body parts in


    pairs

    Masculine: Real
    masc vs. Fake
    masc

    Partly-Flexible

    Singular

    Number

    Singular and plural


    pointing words

    Non-Flexible

    Words ending in alif


    eg: ,
    .

    Pair

    Flexibility

    : Plural because the



    Arabs said so!
    ( Nations) ,


    ( Nation/People) ,
    (Generation/ Century).

    Fully-Flexible
    Normally an
    is heavy. The
    extra 'n' sound in page 6.

    2) A mudaf is light

    Feminine Plural:
    Grammatically treated as a
    'She' or what it really is.

    Plural

    Four reasons for


    an
    to be light

    Doer of the act,


    Default

    3) The one being called using


    4)
    = categorical negation

    Make the
    you want to negate light and
    nasb and put in front of it, e.g.

    Form


    Detail of the act,
    Victim of H Nasb

    Word after 'of' (MI),


    Victim of H Jarr

    Ending Sounds
    Ending Combinations

    Masculine Plural: can


    include a group of men
    and women.

    Status

    Light v Heavy
    1) Partly-flexibile

    Proper names of places,



    .

    Common

    Type

    Human broken plurals: represent


    humans, jinns and angles.
    Grammatically treated as 'She' or
    what it really is.

    Non-human broken
    plurals: Grammatically
    treated as a 'She',



    ,.
    1) Words with
    2) Proper names

    How to tell status

    3) The one being called !

    Independent _ R
    N (i) attached to H Nasb, e.g.

    (ii) attached to a , e.g.

    J (i) attached to an
    , e.g.

    (ii) attached to H Jarr, e.g.

    Pronouns are wierd


    Proper


    7 Kinds of proper words

    4) Pronouns
    5) Pointer words

    Attached
    7) The word before 'of' if the word after
    'of' is proper

    6) Connector words

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