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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.
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