LessonsThe Tawābiʿ and Naʿt: Direct and Relational AttributesQuiz

جَاءَنِي رِجَالٌ عَالِمُونَ — Learned men came to me.
رِجَالٌ: nominative subject, a broken plural (ḍammah).
عَالِمُونَ: nominative adjective, a sound masculine plural (wāw).

The noun and adjective need appropriate agreement in case, gender, number and definiteness; they need not belong to the same morphological plural class.

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Parsing Learned Men

The Tawābiʿ and Naʿt: Direct and Relational Attributes

جَاءَنِي رِجَالٌ عَالِمُونَ — Learned men came to me.
رِجَالٌ: nominative subject, a broken plural (ḍammah).
عَالِمُونَ: nominative adjective, a sound masculine plural (wāw).

The noun and adjective need appropriate agreement in case, gender, number and definiteness; they need not belong to the same morphological plural class.