Essentials of Arabic Grammar - Asim Iqbal 2nd Islamic Downloads

The Gender of Nouns ْאאאא‏ْ‏ (Common Gender): Some nouns are used as masculine as well as feminine.These are termed as ْא , e.g. ‘clouds’, ‘cattle’, ‘gold’, ‘bees’, ‘trees’.אذ ‘locust’, אدThese are masculine by form, feminine by signification.An Explanation Regarding Exceptional Cases:Here, I would like to clarify an important point regardingthe exceptional cases in the grammatical rules. The learnershould be mindful of the fact that the languages have notcome into being through an academic process based onsome predetermined sets of grammatical rules and formsbut, on the contrary, the languages are spoken by thenatives of the region long before the grammarians form thegrammatical rules applicable to them. And the object offraming grammatical rules is essentially to facilitate thelearning and better understanding of the languages by thenon-natives or the foreigners. But, where they fail to applyuniform sets of grammatical rules, they categorize that asexceptional case. Hence, the exception-rule is a commonfeature to all the languages. Having said that, I must hastento emphasis that the grammarians of Arabic language havecontributed tremendously in facilitating the learningprocess of the language. In fact, they have developed aneasy and effective method of learning the classic Arabic ofthe Holy Quran. Hence, their efforts cannot be underminedin any way.16⎺⎺⎺