EnglishGrammar: Adjectives
Declination🠉
In Arabic adjectives follow the noun they modify and agree with its gender.
The plural is only used with people. It can be regular or irregular.
Non-human nouns in plural take the feminine adjective, even if they are masculine.
| Masculine | Feminine | Regular plural | |||
| • front consonant • -īr |
-e | -īn | |||
| • back consonant (', ˁ, ġ, h, ḥ, ḫ) |
-a | ||||
| • emphatic consonant (ḍ, q̈, r, ṣ, ṭ, ẓ) |
-α | ||||
| -i | -ye | -yīn | |||
| -u | -we | -wīn | |||
Adjectives derived from nouns take the forms:
| Masculine | Feminine | Plural | |||
| -i | -iyye | -iyyīn | |||
Colours and “defect adjectives” have a special type of declination: ⇒ Colours