Arabic pronouns and the Quran: Difference between revisions

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* They are more complicated than in English, because they differentiate between dual and plural forms and also sometimes differentiate between gender while English doesn't (for exampe "you" feminine plural and "you" masculine plural).

* Since Arabic has different verb forms for different pronouns, the pronouns are often not written. For example in English "he wrote" and "she wrote" couldn't be expressed by just "wrote", because the gender would be ambiguous. But in Arabic "he wrote" is "howwa kataba" and "she wrote" is "heyya katabat", so writing "kataba" is enough to express "he wrote", without the need for "howwa" (he).

* Dual pronouns might be considered redundant, when they can be expressed with plural forms. Also there is no gender neutral pronoun, like "it". So English is easier and has something that Arabic doesn't.

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* (*) Posessive pronouns like "his" or "our" are expressed almost identically, with the exception of "my" being <span style="font-size:150%;">ـي-</span> (-i).

* Although possessive pronouns don't change the meaning of the noun in any way, apologists, when counting the word "day" (يوم, ''yawm''), exclude words like "your day" (يومكم, ''yawmi'''kum''''') in the [[365 days miracle in the Quran|365 days miracle]], because otherwise they wouldn't get to 365.

* [[Iltifat]]

* [[Spelling Inconsistencies in the Quran]]

* [[Arabic letters and diacritics]]