ABSTRACT
There are two types of plural nouns in Arabic: (1) regular and (2) irregular.
and feminine nouns, followed by irregular plurals and other plurals of various
nouns.
the suffix َنو -uuna to the end of those nouns. These noun categories follow a regular pattern in their pluralization. It should be noted that َنو -uuna as a plural marker of nouns is used to mark the nominative case only. َنو -uuna changes to َني -iina when nouns are in either the accusative or the genitive case, as in the following examples in which َنوِلبقَتْسُم is the plural of ٌِلبْقَتْسُم:
.َنوِلبْقَتْسُمـلاَلَصَو The greeters/welcomers arrived. (nominative)
.َينِلبْقَتْسُمـلا انْدَهاش We saw the greeters/welcomers. (accusative)
Nouns that follow this pattern are especially those active or passive participles
derived from َل َّعَف verb forms (Form II) through َلَعْفَتْسا (Form X) that represent human entities. Examples are provided in the table below.
