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ISM- PRACTICE OF FLEXIBILITY

Learning - Practice the three types of flexibility

Objectives

Lesson Review

Recall that there are three types of flexibility: fully flexible, partly flexible, and non-flexible:
1. Fully-flexible: These are regular Arabic words
a. They take tanween and kasrah normally. Take a look at the Muslim chart for
good examples of fully flexible words. ( , , etc.)
2. Partly flexible: Names of places and non-Arab names
a. They cant take a kasrah and are light (no tanween)
3. Non-flexible: Words that never change
a. These are words like . These words can be , , or , but
they will always look the same, regardless of which status they are in. Usually
words ending in or are non-flexible.

Here is a good chart that illustrates words from different categories of flexibility:

Non-flexible Partly-flexible Fully-flexible Status

(Rafa)
(Nasb)
(Jarr)


Lets do some practice. For the following words, provide their status (, , or )and
flexibility:

1.

2.
3.

4.
5.
6.

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9.
10.

Answers:

1.

a. because of
b. Fully flexible; we can tell easily because it has a tanween

2.
a. , , or
b. Non-flexible
3.
a. because of the
b. Partly flexible; this is a non-Arab name (Arthur)

4.
a. because of the

b. Fully flexible: not only does it have an but the gives it away that its fully
flexible
5.
a. or because of the
b. Partly flexible; this is a non-Arab name
6.
a. Trick question! This doesnt exist because Ibrahim is a partly flexible (non-Arab)
name, and thus can never take a

7.
a. or because of the ending combination
b. Fully flexible; we can tell easily because it isnt light
8.
a. because of the
b. Partly flexible; this is a non-Arab name

9.
a. because it has the
ending combination
b. Fully flexible; we can tell because it isnt light (and it has a at the end too)
10.

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a. because it has
b. Fully flexible; it has a tanween

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