Arabic grammar C2 · Lesson 2 of 4
Diptotes
Some nouns never take tanween, so they never take the extra alif: , not . Arabic grammar calls them .
They include most proper names that are feminine or foreign (, , ), names on the pattern (), adjectives on and (, ), and broken plurals like , and .
With or in an , they behave like other nouns: . A common male name such as or is not a diptote: .
Examples
- قابلت أحمد في المكتبة.
- زرنا مساجد قديمة.
- رأيت محمدا أمس.
- اشتريت قميصا أحمر.
- في المدينة مدارس كثيرة.