Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 1 Indeclinable Nouns What is understood from an indeclinable noun? What nouns are indeclinable? How many forms of indeclinable nouns are there? An indeclinable noun is a noun whose last syllable does not change when placed into different parts of a sentence. There are so few indeclinable nouns compared to declinable ones.
The popular indeclinable nouns are: personal pronouns, conjunctions, demonstrative pronouns, conditional nouns and interrogative pronouns. There are four forms of indeclinable nouns: al-dumm, al-fath, al-kasr and al-sukūn: حَیثُ کَیفَ ﺃمسِ مَن (who, yesterday, how, where) Previous