All non-human plurals in Arabic are grammatically feminine singular:
al-kutub hadra' (الكتب خضراء)
"The books, she is green"
All non-human plurals in Arabic are grammatically feminine singular: al-kutub hadra' (الكتب خضراء) "The books, she is green" 3 comments
@neauoire interesting. I wonder if this is a heritage of some older language where they were neuter and in the evolution of language this happened to match the feminine form? I know this has happened from Latin to some Italian dialects, so now I'm curious if this is also the case for Arabic.. |
@neauoire ... there are a lot of ways to interpret this information.