LessonsNoun Case Classes: Type 6 — Sound Masculine Plural and Related FormsQuiz

حَضَرَ عِشْرُونَ طَالِبًا.
Translation: Twenty students arrived.

حَضَرَ: past verb built on fatḥa.
عِشْرُونَ: nominative subject with wāw; a multiple of ten treated like the sound masculine plural.
طَالِبًا: accusative tamyīz with fatḥa; singular and indefinite.

Rule: The numeral's specification stays accusative regardless of the case of the numeral.

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The Specification After Twenty

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

حَضَرَ عِشْرُونَ طَالِبًا.
Translation: Twenty students arrived.

حَضَرَ: past verb built on fatḥa.
عِشْرُونَ: nominative subject with wāw; a multiple of ten treated like the sound masculine plural.
طَالِبًا: accusative tamyīz with fatḥa; singular and indefinite.

Rule: The numeral's specification stays accusative regardless of the case of the numeral.