Unlike English Arabic adjectives follow the noun they modify, which is somehow easier, because when you

start with the noun first you will easily modify the adjective that comes afterwards accordingly either to its masculine, feminine, dual or plural form. .(literally house small) A small house: baitun sagheer
Just like panish ! "erman #, Arabic has masculine and feminine adjective forms, we learned in a previous lesson how to form the feminine from masculine in nouns, same steps will be taken to form feminine adjectives too. $et%s go over the rule of forming feminine from masculine form, which includes feminine adjectives with some:

&n Arabic to form a feminine adjective from the masculine, you simply add 'taa% marbuta( which looks like

:to the end of the adjective# for e)ample ,))

Arabic Adjectives

(feminine) masculine, *ig: kabeera) * ig: +abeer (feminine) masculine, mall: sagheera) (feminine)
mall: agheer

masculine, *eautiful: jameela) * eautiful: Jameel

is not always the case to form the feminine of a masculine

, -ote that adding the 'taa% marbuta

:adjective. .here are some e)ceptions to this

for e)ample take in most cases a different form, which is /olors and most adjectives starting with 'a represented in this model word 0?a??aa,, the steps to model our feminine irregular adjective is: e)tract the consonants from the masculine adjective and place them respectively in the place of the 1uestion marks,

:here are some e)amples ) (after replacing the 333 with the consonants masculine, zrq 0raw consonants, 0?a??aa, raw model 2ar1aa) * lue a2ra1

masculine, bkm 0raw consonants, 0?a??aa, raw model bakmaa) 4umb abkam

(after replacing the 333 with the consonants)

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Dual Adjectives in Arabic:

to the end of the adjective, note .o form a dual masculine adjective in Arabic we simply add 'aan

, that you can do that even with adjectives starting with 'a (masculine dual) masculine singular, *ig kabeeraan) * ig kabeer (masculine dual) masculine singular, *lue a2ra1aan) * lue a2ra1 :to the masculine adjective .o form a dual feminine adjective add 'ataan (feminine dual) masculine singular, *ig kabeerataan) * ig kabeer
the dual feminine will take the '?a??awataan( form, by replacing the 5or adjectives starting with 'a

:1uestion marks with our consonants

feminine dual, 0after replacing ) masculine singular, *lue 2ar1awaan) * lue a2ra1

(the '3( of ?a??awataan with a2ra1 consonants Plural adjective in Arabic:

.he way to form a plural adjective is the same way you form a plural noun, we already discussed that in a separate page 0forming the plural, Just remember that the adjective follows the noun, and not the opposite like in English.

"ood: jayyed

*ad: sayye