09-13-2003, 11:56 AM
As Salam Alykom
There are three types of plural form:
Perfect feminine plural جمع مؤنث سالم
Perfect masculin plural جمع مذكر سالم
Irregular جمع تكسير
Now as for the 1st:
Any fminine word (ending with a ta marbouta) is changed into plural by adding at the end alef and ta ات:
Such as:
جميلة جميلات تلميذة تلميذات طاولة طاولات
tawelah tawelat telmeedha telmeedhat jamilah jameelat
table tables student students pretty
2nd:
Any masculine word is changed into plural by adding at the end either waw noun or ya noun according to its position in the sentence such as:
فلاح فلاحون أو فلاحين مدرس مدرسون أو مدرسين
fallah fallahoun or fallaheen modares modaresoon or modareseen
farmer farmers teacher teachers
Now we come to the irregular, actually it has no rule and u gain knowledge about it by reading and practice such as:
رجل رجال قدم أقدام أم أمهات حائط حوائط
rajul rejal qadam aqdam um ummahat ha-et hawa-et
Man men, foot feet, mother mothers, wall walls
we may need to create a list that develops by time for the irregular plural Insh a Allah