In many cases the two members become a fixed coined phrase, the idafah being used as the equivalent of a compound noun used in some Indo-European languages such as English. A noun. This is to be a covered for a more advanced level in a future post. If it is dual or plural, the rule is to drop its final ن nuun in both cases. Grammatically, the first part of the GC is called مُضَاف muDHaaf ‘the added/annexed’ and the second part is called مُضَاف إِلَيْه muDHaaf iilayh ‘the added-to/the annexed-to’. The only other time the genitive occurs is if a word is the second or later term of an idaafa. In indicating its type/sort, it is added to an indefinite noun. ‘she is a fashion model.’, (g) ذَهَبُوا إِلَى رَجُلِ دِيْنٍ. Thus بَيْتُ ٱلطَّلَبَةِ baytu al-ṭalabati can mean "house of the (certain, known) students", but is also the normal term for "the student hostel". كَسْرَة kasrah in the case of singular nouns (and gets ين in the case of dual and plural nouns). Iḍāfah (إِضَافَة) is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession. That is, it becomes definite, as in examples (a) and (b) or its type/sort is indicated, as in examples (c) and (d). Yasir went out of the school. It can be considered indefinite or definite only as a whole. Words that have genitive case end in i in definite form and in in indefinite form. The second part is always assigned a genitive case, i.e. In terms of parsing and final diacritics assignment (i.e. First, a noun or adjective following a preposition will always be in the genitive. [6] In the case of words for containers, the iḍāfah may express what is contained: فِنْجَانُ قَهْوَةٍ finjānu qahwatin "a cup of coffee". It is primarily meant to ease the pronunciation of GC, as illustrated in (e), (f), and (g) for singular and in (h) and (i) for dual and plural. The definiteness or indefiniteness of the second term determines the definiteness of the entire, This page was last edited on 28 September 2020, at 16:43. To delimit the annexed noun, it is added to a definite noun. English. Iḍāfah (إِضَافَة) is an Arabic grammatical structure, mostly used to indicate possession. Depending on how the annexed noun المُضَاف is affected, GC is divided into two types: 1) GC that affects the meaning and 2) GC that affects the pronunciation. qism and kitaab) are defined/delimited by adding them to the definite nouns (al-aHya’a and john). The first term in iḍāfah has the following characteristics:[7], The second term in iḍāfah has the following characteristics when it is a noun:[8], iḍāfah constructions of multiple terms are possible, and in such cases, all but the final term are in the construct state, and all but the first member are in the genitive case. case assignment), the first part is normally parsed (assigned a final diacritical mark) according to its position in the sentence, that is it could be a subject, an object, a topic, a predicate, or an object of a preposition. Genitive Construction (GC), known as iDHaafah إِضَافَة, is usually encountered at the early stages of learning Arabic. It is marked as definite (with the definitive article) or indefinite (with nunation, in those varieties of Arabic that use it), and can take a possessive pronoun suffix. Idāfa basically entails putting one noun after another: the second noun specifies more precisely the nature of the first noun. ذَهَبَ الرَّجُلُ إِلَى الْبَيْتِ. [13] For example: The possessive suffix can also take the place of the second noun of an iḍāfah construction, in which case it is considered definite. The iḍāfa (إضافَة) construction of traditional Arabic grammar is a possessive construction (also known as a genitive construction) which relates two nouns.