Arabic Grammar: Sound Masculine Plurals (جمع المذكر)

Vocabulary and grammar flashcards focusing on the Arabic sound masculine plural (جمع المذكر), nisba plurals, prefix patterns, and comparative forms across Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى), Levantine (شامي), and Egyptian (مصري).

جمع المذكر

The sound masculine plural in Arabic, used for human masculine nouns and adjectives.

Nisba Adjectives Plural Rule (نسبة)

Most nisba adjectives take the regular human sound masculine plural endings, with a few irregular exceptions.

عربي (Plural Exception)

An exception to the regular nisba sound plural pattern, taking the broken plural عرب (Arab).

أمريكي / أميركي (Plural Exception)

An exception to the regular nisba sound masculine plural, taking the plural form أمريكان (Americans).

Prefixes مُـ and مَـ (Human Nouns & Adjectives)

Nouns and adjectives referring to people that begin with the prefixes مُـ and مَـ (such as مبسوط, مترجم, مُتخصص, and مَشغول) take sound masculine plural endings.

مَكتَب and مَكتَبة (Plural Restriction)

Words that begin with the prefix مـ but refer to places, and therefore do not take masculine sound plural endings.

تعبان (Adjectives Ending in ـان)

An example of singular human adjectives ending in ـان whose plurals follow specific patterns.

مصري (Plural forms)

Egyptian; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is مصريون / مصريين, in Levantine (الشامي) is مصريين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is مصريين.

لبناني (Plural forms)

Lebanese; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is لبنانيون / لبنانيين, in Levantine (الشامي) is لبنانيين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is لبنانيين.

سوري (Plural forms)

Syrian; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is سوريون / سوريين, in Levantine (الشامي) is سوريين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is سوريين.

عراقي (Plural forms)

Iraqi; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is عراقيون / عراقيين, in Levantine (الشامي) is عراقيين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is عراقيين.

مترجم (Plural forms)

Translator; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is مترجمون / مترجمين, in Levantine (الشامي) is مترجمين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is مترجمين.

موظف (Plural forms)

Employee; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is موظفون / موظفين, in Levantine (الشامي) is موظفين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is موظفين.

متخصص (Plural forms)

Specialist; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is متخصصون / متخصصين, in Levantine (الشامي) is متخصصين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is متخصصين.

مشغول (Plural forms)

Busy; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is مشغولون / مشغولين, in Levantine (الشامي) is مشغولين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is مشغولين.

مبسوط (Plural forms)

Happy or pleased; takes the spoken dialectal plural مبسوطين in both Levantine (الشامي) and Egyptian (المصري).

غريب (Plural forms)

Strange or stranger; plural in formal Arabic (الفصحى) is غريبون / غريبين, in Levantine (الشامي) is غريبين, and in Egyptian (المصري) is غريبين.