Lesson 24 – الدَّرْسُ الرَّابِعُ وَالْعِشْرُونَ

Noun and its Types (continued...) - الاسْمُ وَأَنْوَاعُهُ

Introduction – مُقَدِّمَةٌ

• In this lesson, we will learn about the Demonstrative Pronouns أَسْماءُ الإِشَارَةِ and Relative Pronouns الأَسْمَاءُ الْمَوْصُولَةُ in detail.
• In previous lessons we have learnt the basics of the Demonstrative Pronouns (see Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 6, Lesson 7|L007_001.html||, Lesson 13, & Lesson 18) and Relative Pronouns in (Lesson 9, & Lesson 12).
• "A Demonstrative Pronoun is a noun that represents the near or the distant object.
• We know that in English "This" is used to point to the near singular object and "That" is used for the distant object and "These" is used to point towards the near Plural Objects and "Those" is used for the Distant Objects. However different nouns are not used for the Dual (in English language) and there is no difference of gender i.e., the same nouns are used for the masculine as well as the feminine.
•  In Arabic however, different Demonstrative Pronouns are used for singular, dual and plural objects. Similarly different Nouns are used for the masculine as well as the feminine.

• Following are the examples for the Demonstrative Pronouns:

• "A Relative Pronoun is a noun which refers or relates to some noun preceding it".
• The Arabic Relative Pronouns have different forms for singular, dual and plural as well as for masculine and feminine.

 Let’s take some examples of the Relative Pronouns: