Gender of Arabic nouns

When starting to learn Arabic, we first have to deal with the fact that Arabic nouns have gender. We have to distinguish female and male nouns. We would like to advise you to learn each noun's gender from the very beginning – along with the English translation of the word.

To make this a little easier for you, we would like to introduce this little rule of thumb for recognising the gender of nouns in Arabic.

Female nouns often end in ة (respectively ـة , the connected form / for more information, please go to the chapter on the Arabic alphabet). Nouns without this ending are mostly masculine.

Please memorize the following examples:

Rules of thumb to distinguish male from female nouns in Arabic (some examples)
الرَّجُلُ	الرجل	ar-rağulu	man
الصَّدِيْقُ	الصديق	as-sadīqu	friend
الزَّوْخَةُ	الزوجة	az-zauğatu	wife, spouse
الصَّبِيَّةُ	الصبية	as-sabiyyatu	girl

This is just a rule of thumb and there are exceptions that you will have to learn and memorize separately.

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