Talk:Arabic nouns and adjectives

Creation

I'm in the process of splitting the Arabic grammar article. I created this article from what used to be the nouns and adjectives section of the main article. Azylber (talk) 19:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

sources

I've added some sources for the article, but I think we probably need a few more! Azylber (talk) 06:33, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, as you say! Basically every claim in this article should be referenced. The easiest approach to this (for simple matters) to reference paragraphs. More complicated matters would benefit from different sources that discuss different approaches on the issue. It's indeed a slight problem that you cannot simply take one reference grammar and go with it. But if you take three nice grammars plus a few articles on selected topics, you'll go quite some way, improving the article in the course :-).

Separating the bibliography from the references themselves may make sense, cf. i.e. Swedish language or Bengali language. G Purevdorj (talk) 20:32, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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'presumably, -aw of masculine defective -an plurals is similarly assimilated to -ay'

Hi, I'd like to know both an example of that type of plural, as well as the reason for the uncertainty "presumably" added to the statement. Thanks in advance.--Backinstadiums (talk) 01:00, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

'The enclitic forms ـنِي ‎(-nī) and ـنِيَ ‎(-niya) are attached to verbs, prepositions ending in نْ ‎(n)'

Hi, according to wiktionary, there's a form 'ـنِيَ ‎(-niya)', ending in فتحة. Could, sb., please, add a reference to its use with some example? Thanks in advance. --Backinstadiums (talk) 01:01, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

inflechtion - changed or unchanged

The first sentence of the section Noun and adjective inflection in Colloquial Arabic states -

"In the colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic, much of the inflectional and derivational grammar of Classical Arabic nouns and adjectives is unchanged."

And the second sentence there states -

"The colloquial varieties have all been affected by a change that deleted most final short vowels (also final short vowels followed by a nunation suffix -n), and shortened final long vowels."

And then come the details for all those many changes. - Should it then not be better to have the first sentence stating - "In the colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic, much of the inflectional and derivational grammar of Classical Arabic nouns and adjectives has changed."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:4671:FA00:B82E:AD94:2D1:A983 (talk) 02:51, 4 January 2019 (UTC)