The adjective also becomes perpetually in the singular unless the attribute or related referent is a broken plural, in which case the adjective may be pluralized, though this is relatively uncommon and some traditional grammarians criticize it | |
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literally "The bird stood on a tree great indefinite, feminine, singular, genitive [are] its branches plural of an inanimate masculine noun "• Thus, when the relative pronoun is the object of a verb or a preposition, a pronominal clitic that references and agrees with the "relative pronoun" in gender and number is added after the respective verb or preposition while the relative pronoun itself remains at the beginning of the clause, though the addition of clitics after verbs and participles is optional just as when nouns in verbal sentences are fronted | Hence, relative pronouns are classified in traditional Arabic grammar as a subcategory of nouns |
literally "So ordain what[ever] you [are] ordaining" Syntactically, this differs from, for example, English, where relative pronouns replace nouns as in , , , and and determiners as in and in the relative clause.
3Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, | |
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