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هَذَا مُعَلَّمٌ , هَذِهِ مُعَلَّمَةٌ
This is a (male) teacher. هَذَا مُعَلَّمٌ
This is a (female) teacher. هَذِهِ مُعَلَّمَةٌ
I know هَذَا and هَذِهِ changed because of masculine and feminine nouns. But, why did مٌ change into مَةٌ ?
Nov 23, 2012 8:29 PM
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In arabic you can reveal Masculin from feminin just from the word itself
for example , in english if we say : a teacher
We can't reveal if it's a feminin teacher or masculin
but in arabic , if you say معلمة so it's feminin
So , هذا هذه is only demonstratives , in fact adding a ة will make the word feminin
November 23, 2012
Welcome, Hope! :)
Yes, it's called a "taa' marbuTa" and it shows what words are feminine. As your vocabulary grows, you will learn that there are exceptions, of course. Not every feminine word ends with a "taa' marbuTa", and there are some masculine words with one.
Most of them follow the pattern of your example.
November 25, 2012
Correction:
This is a (male) teacher. هَذَا مُعَلِّمٌ (mo'alim instead of mo'alam)
This is a (female) teacher. هَذِهِ مُعَلِّمَةٌ (mo'alima instead of mo'alama)
اللام تكون مكسورة، يعني الكسرة تحت الشدة وليس فوقها
And concerning "ة" it's the same, we add it for the feminine case
November 23, 2012
When it's a feminine noun , we add ة at the end of the word.
for example:
معلم ، معلمة
طبيب ، طبيبة
أستاذ ، أستاذة
محاسب ، محاسبة
November 23, 2012
for the same reason (because of masculine and feminine nouns)
ex. he is an engineer هو مهندس
she is an engineer هي مهندسة
good luck :)
November 23, 2012
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