The Definition of Morphology

The Division of Verbs

Sound and Unsound

Triliteral Verbs with Increase letters

Quadriliteral Verbs with Increase Letters

The Preterite Tense Verb

The Aorist Tense

The Imperative

Intransitive and Transitive Verbs

Divisions of Nouns

Proper and Generic Nouns

Infinitives

Adjectives: The Active and Passive Participle

The Adjective

The Forms of Exaggeration

The Comparative and Superlative Noun

Definite and Indefinite Nouns

Masculine and Feminine

Maqsur, Mamdud, and Manqus Nouns

Single and Dual Forms

Plural Nouns

Possessive Nouns

The Diminutive Pattern

Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

Conjuncts

Conditional Words, Interrogative Words and Adverbial Nouns of Time or Place

Cardinal Numbers

Ordinal Numbers

The Status of Nouns

The Status of Verbs

Indeclinable Nouns and Verbs

Implied Vowel Signs

Nunated and Unnunated Words

Prepositions

A study of Arabic Morphology volume 2. Translated by Hamid Hussein
Waqar.


Elementary Arabic Morphology 2

Ordinal Numbers
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225. What is an ordinal number?

226. How many ordinal numbers are there?

227. How many types of ordinal numbers are there?

228. What is the ruling of ordinal numbers and the numbered object?

229. What is the ruling of ordinary numbers in regards to their vowel
signs?

225. Ordinal numbers are nouns that indicate the order of things. For
example: **الولد** **الرابع** (the fourth boy).

226. There are twelve ordinal numbers: **أوَّل** (first), **ثانٍ**
(second), **ثالِث** (third), **رابِع** (fourth), **خامِس** (fifth),
**سادِس** (sixth), **سابِع** (seventh), **ثامِن** (eighth), **تاسِع**
(ninth), **عاشِر** (tenth), **مِئَة** (hundredth), and **ألف**
(thousandth).

227. There are four types of ordinal numbers:

• Single: from first to tenth.

• Compound: from eleventh to nineteenth.

• Decimal: from twentieth to ninetieth and a hundredth and a thousandth.

• Coupled: from twenty-first to ninety-ninth.

228. Ordinal numbers follow the numbered object in gender. For example:
**الرجل** **الرابع** **و** **الفتاة** **الرابعة** (the fourth man and
the fourth girl). The exception to this rule is decimal numbers, they
remain the same regardless of the gender of the numbered object. For
example: **الکاتب** **العشرون** **و** **الکاتبة** **العشرون** (the
twentieth male author and the twentieth female author)

229. All of the ordinal numbers are declinable. The exception to this is
compound numbers, they are indeclinable with a *fathah*.


