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the article ال‎ is elided before it and the consonant itself doubled, عَوَّامُ ٱلَّاس‎ awāmmu-nnās, "common people," عَبْدُ ٱللَّه‎ 'abdu-llāh, "Abdullah" (the servant of Allah).

THE ACCIDENCE.

Accidence teaches us the modifications of which words are capable in order to express the various accidental circumstances of person, gender, number, time and place. Such modifications are called inflections, and extend to verbs and nouns alike.

Inflection.

The following are the only inflections used:

ا‎ ā at the end of a word shows that it is masculine.

یِ‎ ī at the end of„ a word shows„ that it is„ feminine.

ا‎ ā when further inflected becomes ی‎ é.

The affixes ی‎ é in nouns and ین‎ ēṅ in verbs express the masculine plural; when the are further infected they become ون‎ oṅ.

ان‎ āṅ or یان‎ iyāṅ express the feminine plural.

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