{"id":13339,"date":"2023-07-24T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaleela.com\/en\/blog\/learn-arabic-case-endings-the-right-way-the-nominative\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:27:03","slug":"learn-arabic-case-endings-the-right-way-the-nominative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaleela.com\/en\/blog\/learn-arabic-case-endings-the-right-way-the-nominative\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominative Case in Arabic: Signs and The Eight Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to the advanced level! Your deep understanding of Arabic grammatical cases (known as I\u2019r\u0101b \u2013 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0628) is what makes you a precise speaker and writer. This guide is your ultimate resource for mastering the nominative case in arabic (\u1e24\u0101lat al-Raf\u02bb), the cornerstone of the Arabic sentence, before we provide essential summaries of the Accusative and Genitive cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Nominative Case in Arabic (Nominative Case Arabic)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Nominative Case is the state of prominence and predication. It is assigned to the essential nouns that form the pillars of the sentence’s meaning. Mastering this case is fundamental to constructing correct Arabic sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detailed Nominative Signs: How to Know a Word is Marf\u016b\u02bb (Morf\u016b\u02bb – \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0641\u0648\u0639)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The signs of the Nominative Case are split into two groups: the Original Sign (the vowel Dammah) and the Substituted Signs (Letters) that replace the Dammah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noun Type<\/th>Grammatical Sign<\/th>Reason for Using This Sign<\/th>Example (The Marf\u016b\u02bb word)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Singular Noun<\/td>Dammah (\u064f) \/ Dammah Nunation<\/td>This is the Original Sign for the nominative case in Arabic.<\/td>The teacher is present. (\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0644\u0651\u0645\u064f \u062d\u0627\u0636\u0631\u064c).<\/td><\/tr>
Broken Plural<\/td>Dammah (\u064f) \/ Dammah Nunation<\/td>It is treated like a singular noun in all case markings.<\/td>The houses are old. (\u0627\u0644\u0628\u064a\u0648\u062a\u064f \u0642\u062f\u064a\u0645\u0629\u064c).<\/td><\/tr>
Sound Feminine Plural<\/td>Dammah (\u064f) \/ Dammah Nunation<\/td>It is raised with the original vowel (Dammah), only differing in the Accusative Case.<\/td>The girls are hardworking. (\u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u064a\u0627\u062a\u064f \u0645\u062c\u062a\u0647\u062f\u0627\u062a\u064c).<\/td><\/tr>
Dual<\/td>Alif (\u0627)<\/td>Substituted Sign: Because it indicates two, the Alif takes the place of the Dammah.<\/td>The two engineers traveled. (\u0633\u0627\u0641\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0647\u0646\u062f\u0633\u0627\u0646\u0650).<\/td><\/tr>
Sound Masculine Plural<\/td>W\u0101w (\u0648)<\/td>Substituted Sign: The W\u0101w replaces the Dammah to denote the masculine plural.<\/td>The travelers arrived. (\u0648\u0635\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0627\u0641\u0631\u0648\u0646).<\/td><\/tr>
The Five Nouns<\/td>W\u0101w (\u0648)<\/td>Substituted Sign: Raised with the W\u0101w instead of the Dammah (under specific conditions).<\/td>Your brother is sick. (\u0623\u062e\u0648\u0643 \u0645\u0631\u064a\u0636\u064c).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Eight Nominative Positions (Marf\u016b\u02bb\u0101t): The Roles that Grant Raf\u02bb<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A word is in the Nominative Case (Raf\u02bb) if it occupies any of these crucial grammatical roles in the sentence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Subject (F\u0101’il – \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0627\u0639\u0644):<\/strong> The noun that performs the verb or is described by it.\n