LessonsNoun Case Classes: Type 5 — The Dual and Related FormsQuiz

وَمَرَرْتُ بِالرَّجُلَيْنِ كِلَيْهِمَا وَاثْنَيْنِ.
Translation: And I passed by the two men themselves and by two additional men.

بِ: preposition.
الرَّجُلَيْنِ: genitive, marked by yāʾ.
كِلَيْهِمَا: emphatic expression, genitive, marked by yāʾ.
اثْنَيْنِ: coordinated genitive form with yāʾ.

Contrast with the previous example: The visible form الرَّجُلَيْنِ has not changed; its syntactic case has.

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The Book’s Genitive Example

Noun Case Classes: Type 5 — The Dual and Related Forms

وَمَرَرْتُ بِالرَّجُلَيْنِ كِلَيْهِمَا وَاثْنَيْنِ.
Translation: And I passed by the two men themselves and by two additional men.

بِ: preposition.
الرَّجُلَيْنِ: genitive, marked by yāʾ.
كِلَيْهِمَا: emphatic expression, genitive, marked by yāʾ.
اثْنَيْنِ: coordinated genitive form with yāʾ.

Contrast with the previous example: The visible form الرَّجُلَيْنِ has not changed; its syntactic case has.