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Sarapan Nasi Goreng
why 'two books' is 'كتابين' 'kitabyn' not 'ithnani kitaba'? How about one book, three books, four books, etc?
Jan 12, 2015 8:49 AM
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1. كتابين 2. اتنين كتاب 3. اتنين كتب 4. كتابين اتنين بس ده عامية بس
January 12, 2015
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One book=كتاب Two books= كتابان/كتابين Three books=ثلاث كتب Four books=اربع كتب Five books=خمس كتب There are rules for using numbers in Arabic. When counting one and two, we don't mention the number, we mention the noun only. As abu basil said, we say كتابين اثنين when confirming. I'm not good at explaining, hope someone can explain better.
January 12, 2015
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كتابين by itself implies the meaning of doubleness , no need to add "ithnani" but if you were confirming you can say كتابين اثنين
January 12, 2015
Mona labeeb, I will search more about the male-female book-number later :)
January 13, 2015
7asan8mog, Mona labeeb, shokran!
January 13, 2015
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Sarapan Nasi Goreng
Language Skills
Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, Greek, Indonesian, Latin, Spanish
Learning Language
Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Latin, Spanish
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