This lesson will help you understand the adjectives in Arabic, and enables you to use real examples shown below. If you have any question let us know by clicking on the “Contact us” button, this lesson is very important since it covers a very widely used element in Arabic which is the adjective.

In Arabic to form the adjectives, you need to don’t need to do anything if it’s masculine, you just place it after the noun it modifies, exactly the opposite of English. A small house: baitun sagheer بيت صغير (literally house small).

To form a feminine adjective from the masculine, you simply add “taa’ marbuta” which looks like ((ة, ــة to the end of the adjective… for example:

Note that adding the “taa’ marbuta  ة, ــة ”  is not always the case to form the feminine of a masculine adjective. There are some exceptions to this:

Colors and most adjectives starting with “a”/ “ أ ” for example take in most cases a different form, which is represented in this model word è (?a??aa’), the question marks should be replaced by the consonants of the masculine adjective and place them respectively in the place of the question marks, here are some examples:

Blue è azraq أزرق (masculine) è (its consonants are: zrq ) è

(?a??aa’) question mark model è zarqaa’ زرقاء

Dumb è abkam أبكم (masculine) è bkm (raw consonants) è

(?a??aa’) raw model è bakmaa’ بكماء

Plural adjective in Arabic:

The way to form a plural adjective is the same way you form a plural noun, we already discussed that in a separate page (forming the plural in Arabic)

Just remember that the adjective follows the noun, and not the opposite like in English.

I hope you benefited from this lesson (the Arabic adjectives), please check our other lessons to take advantage of the other useful information they may contain.