· The last lesson in the composite number is the numbers of hundreds and thousands, as follows:
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500 khamsumi‘ah |
400 arbaξumi’ah |
300 thalāthmi’ah |
200 mi’atān |
100 mi’ah |
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1000 alf |
900 tisξumi’ah |
800 thamānimi’ah |
700 sabξumi’ah |
600 sittumi’ah |
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5000 khamsatu alāf |
4000 arbaξatu alāf |
3000 thalāthatu alāf |
2000 alfān |
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9000 tisξatu alāf |
8000 thamānitu alāf |
7000 sabξatu alāf |
6000 sittatu alāf |
- These numbers are declinable on the short vowels of declension based on their case – e.g.:
- Short fatħah a in accusative case
- short kasrah i in genitive case
- short đammah u in nominative case
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Sign of declension |
Sentence and numbers |
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Ending in short đammah (u) |
Ĵā’a mi’atu raĵulin One hundred men came. |
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Ending in short fatћah (a) |
Ra’aytu mi’ata raĵulin I saw one hundred men. |
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Ending in short kasrah (i) |
Dhahabtu maξa mi’ati raĵulin I went out with one hundred men. |
- The short vowels (đammah, fatћah and kasrah) appear on the first part of the composite numbers from 300 (thalāthumi’ah) to 900 (tisξumi’ah), such as (ثَلاثُ) "thalāth" (three), (أَرْبَعُ) "arbaξ" (four), (خَمْس) "khams" (five), (تِسْع) "tisξ" (nine), etc, and the second part (مئة) "mi’ah" (hundred) always ends with the short vowel kasrah "i", for example:
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Sign of declension |
Sentence and numbers |
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Ending in short kasrah (i) |
اِسْتمَرَّ الإسلامُ في الأنْدَلُسِ أَكْثَرَ من ثَمَانِمِئةِ عَامٍ Istamarra al-Islam fi al-andalus akthara min thamāni-mi’ati ξāmin Islam continued in Andalusia more than eight hundred years. |
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Ending in short fatћah (a) |
قَرَأْتُ اليَوْمَ أَرْبَعَمئةَ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ Qara’tu al-yawma arbaξa-mi’ati baytin min ash-shiξr I read four hundred lines of verse today. |
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Ending in short đammah (u) |
هَاجَرَ ثَلاثُمئةُ رَجُلٍ إلى أمريكا Haĵara thalāthu-mi’ati raĵulun ila amriica Three hundred men emigrated to America. |
- Numbers 1000 "alf", 2000 "alfān", 3000 "thalāthatu alāf", etc., have the same rules of tens numbers 100, 200, 300, etc. For example:
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Sign of declension |
Sentence and numbers |
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Ending in short đammah (u) |
Ĵā’a alfu raĵulin One thousand men came. |
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Ending in short fatћah (a) |
Ra’aytu alfa raĵulin I saw one thousand men. |
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Ending in short kasrah (i) |
Dhahabtu maξa alfi raĵulin I went out with one thousand men. |
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Ending in short đammah (u) |
هَاجَرَ ثَلاثَةُ آلافِ رَجُلٍ إلى أمريكا Haĵara thalāthatu alāfi raĵulun ila amriica Three thousand men emigrated to America. |
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Ending in short fatћah (a) |
قَرَأْتُ اليَوْمَ ثَلاثَةَ آلافِ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ Qara’tu al-yawma thalāthata alāfi baytin min ash-shiξr I read three thousand lines of verse today. |
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Ending in short kasrah (i) |
رَاتِبي أكْثرُ مِنْ ثَلاثَةِ آلافِ جُنَيْهٍ Rātibi aktharu min thalāthati alāfi ĵunayhin My salary is over three thousand pounds. |
· Note: the numbered noun after numbers of hundreds and thousands is always singular and maĵrūr (مجرور) (ending with the short kasrah “i”).