[22] a nagging yet simple note – feminine noun prior to the possessive suffix

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Review… Feminine nouns end in an “a” sound. Masculine nouns end in a consonant.

 

The feminine noun explained [click here]

Feminine nouns that end in an “a” sound are removed and an “it,” "ti," OR “t” is added instead – before we add the possessive suffix.  Just be careful... “it” is used instead of “t” or "ti" if a helping vowel is needed prior to the attached possessive suffix. The helping vowels are shown in red. Rule recall: The reason we add a helping vowel is as not to have three consonants in a row within a word prior to an attached suffix. You can only have two consonants in a row in an Arabic word. Don't panic. Eventually you will get it because it will "sound right!"

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Take note... Remember that within a single word in Arabic (and even for that matter the end of one word and the beginning of another in a sentence) You can not have more than two consonants in a row. Keep this in mind when piling on suffixes onto words that end in a consonant. Helping vowels break the flow of consonants. For instance, the word “ŝanta”  becomes “ŝant”  after we drop the feminine marker "a" in order to attach the possessive suffix. The result is a word that ends in two consonants as shown by the n-t in “ŝanta”. Therefore, you will need to us “it” and not “t” or "ti" because the vowel i will prevent the flow of three consonants in a row which would have wrongfully been: n-t-t.

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