Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 3 Pronouns What is a pronoun? How many types of pronouns are there? How many separated pronouns are there in relation to their case? How many connected pronouns are there in relation to their designated case? A pronoun is a word that takes the place of an apparent meaning, for example: هُوَ which takes the place of whoever it is referring to.
There are two types of pronouns: separated pronouns which are either inchoatives or are mentioned after إلا, for example: هوَ نائمٌ و ما نائمٌ إلا هو, or connected pronouns which are like a part of the word that comes before them, for example: الهاء in رَحِمَهُ.
There are two types of separated pronouns in relation to their case: nominative (هو ، هما ، هم ، هي ، هما ، هنَّ ، أنت ، أنتما ، أنتم ، أنت ، أنتما ، أنتنَّ ، أنا ، نحن) and accusative (إیّاه ، إیّاهما ، إیّاهم ، إیّاها ، إیّاهما ، إیّاهنَّ ، إیّاهک ، إیّاهکما ، إیّاهکم ، إیّاهک ، إیّاکما ، إیّآهکنَّ ، إیّاهي ، إیّاهنا ).
There are three types of connected pronouns in relation to their designated case: those who are only nominative ( alif, wāw, nūn, yā' and tā' ), for example: قاموا, those that are either accusative or genitive (the first person yā', the second person kāf, and the third person hā' ), for example: أکرَمَکَ سیَّدک, and those that come in the nominative, accusative, and genitive cases which is the نا, for example: ربَّنا إنَّنا سمعنا. Previous Next