{"id":13240,"date":"2023-06-15T13:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kaleelah.com\/blog\/a-couple-of-things-about-duals-in-arabic\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:28:23","slug":"a-couple-of-things-about-duals-in-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.kaleelah.com\/en\/blog\/a-couple-of-things-about-duals-in-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Things about Duals in Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">You\u2019ve likely heard the expression \u201cTwo\u2019s company, three\u2019s a crowd\u201d, and Arabic grammar kind of agrees with that expression. You see, according to their numbers, Arabic nouns are divided into three categories: singular, dual, and plural.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-81b3adda-7fff-c1d2-cde7-ea3fc3884371\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The singular (or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064f\u0641\u0631\u064e\u062f<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">almufrad<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> in Arabic) is used to talk about one of something, and the plural (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u062c\u064e\u0645\u0650\u0639<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">jami<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u02bb\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">) is used when there are three or more of something.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">However, Arabic is one of just a few languages today that uses the dual&nbsp;(<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064f\u062b\u064e\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0649<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">almuthannaa\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">) \u2013 the grammatical number used&nbsp;in addition to singular and plural which indicates two of something.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">What\u2019s more, the use of dual is what we\u2019ll be talking about in today\u2019s post, so join us as we teach how to stay two steps ahead when it comes to learning about the dual in Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<h1 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">A Couple of Things about a Couple of Things<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">When you want to talk about two of something in Arabic, instead of using the plural as you do in most other languages, Arabic has something called the dual to identify two nouns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">When the noun is nominative (i.e., the subject), the dual is formed by adding the suffix <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0623<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> to the noun. For example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0643\u0650\u062a\u0627\u0628<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/kitaab\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">book<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0643\u0650\u062a\u0627\u0628\u0627\u0646<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/kitaabaan\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">two book<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Like singular plural nouns, dual nouns also have to agree not only in number but also in gender. Thus:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0650\u0628<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/Taalib\/ <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">(m.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">one student (m.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">becomes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0650\u0628\u0627\u0646<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/taalibaan\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> (m.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">two students (m.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<h1 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">If Two Shall Agree<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Both demonstrative pronouns and adjectives must also agree with their corresponding nouns in gender and number. For example, in the sentence<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> \u0647\u064e\u0630\u0627\u0646 \u0643\u0650\u062a\u0627\u0628\u0627\u0646 \u0643\u064e\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0627\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> \/ <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">haTHaan kitaabaan kabeerann <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/ \u201cThese are two big books\u201d, notice that the noun, adjective, and demonstrative pronoun all end with the same dual masculine suffix.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Also remember from our recent post on demonstrative pronouns that the feminine for there is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0647\u0627\u062a\u0627\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> \/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">haataani\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">, so:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0647\u064e\u0630\u0627\u0646 \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0650\u0628\u0627\u0646<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/HaaTHaan Talibaan\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Two male students<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">becomes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0647\u0627\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0650\u0628\u064e\u062a\u0627\u0646<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/haataan Talibataan\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">two female students<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">A Couple More Things<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">When the noun is accusative (the direct object of the verb) or genitive&nbsp;(words that come after a preposition, an adverb) then the Arabic letter suffix must be attached to the end of the noun as in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0643\u0650\u062a\u0627\u0628\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">kitaabayn <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">(two books).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The masculine pronoun for \u201cboth\u201d in Arabic is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0643\u0650\u0644\u0627<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> \/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">kilaa\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> as in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0643\u0650\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062c\u064f\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> \/ <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">kilaa irrajulayn \/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> (two men). For the feminine form, we use <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u0643\u0650\u0644\u062a\u0627<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> \/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">kiltaa\/ <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">as that used in \u0643\u0650\u0644\u062a\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0651\u064e\u062f\u064a\u0642\u064e\u062a\u064a\u0646&nbsp; \/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">kiltaa iSSadeeqatayn\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> or \u201ctwo friends\u201d who are female.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">So, the next time you need a couple of things from the store or you have two friends coming over for dinner, now it only takes a couple of minutes to say it in Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Of course, if you\u2019d like to learn more about the Arabic language including a thing or two more about duals, be sure to head over to our website and download the Kaleela Arabic language learning app. Get it today only from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kaleela.page.link\/bgs\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">www.kaleela.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Kaleela \u2013 Learn Arabic the Right Way<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve likely heard the expression \u201cTwo\u2019s company, three\u2019s a crowd\u201d, and Arabic grammar kind of agrees with that expression. You see, according to their numbers, Arabic nouns are divided into three categories: singular, dual, and plural. The singular (or \u0627\u0644\u0645\u064f\u0641\u0631\u064e\u062f\/almufrad in Arabic) is used to talk about one of something, and the plural (\u062c\u064e\u0645\u0650\u0639\/jami\u02bb\/) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,77,67,73],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-about-arabic-language","tag-arabic-grammar","tag-learning-arabic-words-amp-expressions","tag-modern-standard-arabic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.0 (Yoast SEO v25.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Couple of Things about Duals in Arabic - Kaleela App<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Couple of Things about Duals in Arabic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You\u2019ve likely heard the expression \u201cTwo\u2019s company, three\u2019s a crowd\u201d, and Arabic grammar kind of agrees with that expression. 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