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4 unusual facts about Arabic grammar


Abdur-Rahman al-Mu'allimee al-Yamani

Upon visiting his son, Yahya was dismayed to learn of his slow progress in studying Arabic grammar.

Al-Jahiz

Thereafter, he authored two hundred books throughout his lifetime that discuss a variety of subjects including Arabic grammar, zoology, poetry, lexicography, and rhetoric.

Arabic grammar

Note that the relative pronoun agrees in gender, number and case, with the noun it modifies—as opposed to the situation in other inflected languages such as Latin and German, where the gender and number agreement is with the modified noun, but the case marking follows the usage of the relative pronoun in the embedded clause (as in formal English "the man who saw me" vs. "the man whom I saw").

Mem

Mīm is used in the creation of ism words (i.e. nouns and adjectives; they are treated fundamentally the same in Arabic grammar).



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