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Plurals of nonhuman like things and ideas.

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Those are grammatically feminine singular in Arabic.

Think of each of them as a feminine singular, it doesnt matter if the originalnonhuman singular word was masculine or feminine, the plural will always begrammatically feminine singular. So its like if in English we referred tochildren or engineers as they, but books and ideas as she.

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Notice the difference in meaning between the followingsentences:

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1. When is the at the end is dropped.

2. must agree with .

3. If is then must be .4. is always and is always .

(See Arabic Made Easy page 16)

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