Noun Case Classes: Type 6 — Sound Masculine Plural and Related Forms

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• What marks the nominative in the sixth case class?
• What is the common sign for accusative and genitive in this class?
• What is the case of «الْمُعَلِّمُونَ» in «حَضَرَ الْمُعَلِّمُونَ»?
• What case does yāʾ mark in «رَأَيْتُ الْمُعَلِّمِينَ»?
• Why is «الْمُسْلِمِينَ» genitive in «مَرَرْتُ بِالْمُسْلِمِينَ»?
• Which is a sound masculine plural?
• What is the accusative form of «عِشْرُونَ»?
• What is «رَجُلًا» in «عِشْرُونَ رَجُلًا»?
• What is the case of «أُولُو» in «جَاءَ أُولُو مَالٍ»?
• Why is the form «أُولِي» used in «رَأَيْتُ أُولِي مَالٍ»?
• Which form has a nūn with kasra when the nūn is present?
• What vowel appears on the nūn of the sound masculine plural?
• Why is the nūn absent from «مُسْلِمُو» in «حَضَرَ مُسْلِمُو الْمَدِينَةِ»?
• Which nūn was dropped in «غُلَامَا زَيْدٍ»?
• What can the form «مُسْلِمِينَ» alone tell you?
• Which sentence uses the correct nominative subject?
• What is the case of «مُعَلِّمِي» in «رَأَيْتُ مُعَلِّمِي الْمَدْرَسَةِ»?
• Which is the correct nominative muḍāf form of «مُعَلِّمُونَ»?
• «رِجَالٌ» takes the «ـُونَ / ـِينَ» endings of the sound masculine plural.
• Both «عِشْرُونَ» and «ثَلَاثُونَ» take wāw in the nominative.
• The dual nūn normally has fatḥa and the sound masculine plural nūn kasra.
• In «مُسْلِمُو الْمَدِينَةِ», wāw remains the nominative marker even after the nūn drops.
• «أُولُو» has a final nūn which is removed in iḍāfa.
• In «عِشْرِينَ رَجُلًا», «رَجُلًا» is an accusative tamyīz.
• In the source «جَاءَنِي مُسْلِمُونَ», what syntactic position does «ي» occupy?
• What is the nūn in «جَاءَنِي»?
• In the source phrase «وَعِشْرُونَ رَجُلًا», what is the numeral coordinated with?
• What is the syntactic role of -tu in «وَرَأَيْتُ مُسْلِمِينَ»?
• Why is «مُسْلِمِينَ» genitive in «وَمَرَرْتُ بِمُسْلِمِينَ»?
• What is the case of «رَجُلًا» in all three source examples?
• Why is «مَالٍ» genitive in «وَأُولِي مَالٍ»?
• Why does «غُلَامَا» lack nūn in «جَاءَنِي غُلَامَا زَيْدٍ»?
• What is «مُسْلِمُو» coordinated with in «مُسْلِمُو مِصْرَ»?
• In the explained diptote reading of «مُسْلِمُو مِصْرَ», what is «مِصْرَ»?
• Why is there no dropped nūn in «أُولُو مَالٍ»?
• In «وَعِشْرِينَ رَجُلًا», «رَجُلًا» remains accusative even when the number is genitive.
• In the source «جَاءَنِي غُلَامَا زَيْدٍ», «ي» is the subject and «غُلَامَا» is the object.