Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Subject pronoun

Today I am learning about subject pronoun. Interesting, in Arabic there are dual pronouns which refers to two persons.

Singular
  1. أَنَا I
  2. أَنْتَ you (masculine)
  3. أَنْتِ you (feminine)
  4. هُوَ he
  5. هِيَ she
Dual
  1. أَنْتُمَا you (masculine and feminine)
  2. هُمَا they (masculine and feminine)
Plural
  1. نَحْنُ we
  2. أَنْتُمْ you (masculine)
  3. أَنْتُنْ you (feminine)
  4. هُمْ they (masculine)
  5. هُنْ they (feminine)

Sentence examples
Note that they are called subject pronouns because they are used as subjects in sentences.
  1. اَنَا وَلَدٌ I am a boy.
  2. هِيَ بِنْتٌ She is a girl.
  3. أَنْتُمَا تَتَكَلَّمَانِ الْعَرَبِيَّة You both speak Arabic.
  4. هُمَا يَتَكَلَّمَانِ الْعَرَبِيَّة They both speak Arabic.