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Sound Plurals

Regular masculine and feminine plurals

Sound masculine plural

Add ـون (nominative) or ـين (accusative/genitive) to make a regular masculine plural, mostly for people.

💬 Examples
مُعَلِّمون
mu'allimuun
teachers (nom.)
📝 Sound masculine plural, nominative
مُعَلِّمين
mu'alllimiin
teachers (acc./gen.)
📝 Same plural, oblique case
Sound feminine plural

Replace ة with ـات to make the regular feminine plural.

📊 Sound plural endings
Type Nominative Acc./Gen.
Masculine ـون (-uun) ـين (-iin)
Feminine ـات (-aat) ـات (-aat)
💬 Examples
مُعَلِّمات
mu'allimaat
(female) teachers
📝 ة → ات
سَيّارات
sayyaaraat
cars
📝 Also used for many inanimate feminines
Non-human plurals are feminine singular

Plurals of non-human nouns are treated grammatically as feminine singular.

💬 Examples
السَّيّاراتُ جَديدةٌ
as-sayyaaraatu jadiidatun
The cars are new
📝 Adjective is feminine SINGULAR
الكُتُبُ مُفيدةٌ
al-kutubu mufiidatun
The books are useful
📝 Same agreement rule