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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 3 Indeclinable Words What is an indeclinable word and what are its signs? How many types of indeclinable words are there? Which nouns are necessarily indeclinable? How many types of nouns are there that are indeclinable for a reason? What are intended vocatives indeclinable on? What is the subject of a lā that denies a whole genius indeclinable on? What are compound numbers indeclinable on?

What are the six directions indeclinable on? What verbs are necessarily indeclinable? What are preterite tense verbs indeclinable on? What are imperative verbs indeclinable on? What verbs are there that are indeclinable for a reason? Are the signs of indeclinable words ever implied? An indeclinable word is a word whose end does not change no matter where it is in the sentence, for example: مَن رأیتَ. It has four signs: a dummah, fathah , kasrah , and sakūn .

The dummah and kasrah are specific to nouns, for example: حَیثُ , and prepositions, for example: مُنذُ. The fathah and sakūn are seen both in nouns, for example: أینَ , verbs, for example: قامَ, and prepositions, for example: لَیتَ. There are two types of indeclinable words: necessary indeclinable words, which are indeclinable in every state and words that are indeclinable for a reason which will be made declinable when the reason disappears.

The nouns which are necessarily indeclinable are: personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, conjuncts, conditional nouns, interrogative nouns, some metonymies, some adverbial nouns of time and place, verbal nouns, and sounds. There are four types of nouns which become indeclinable for a reason: First; intended vocatives, second; the subject of a lā that denies a whole genius, third; compound numbers, and fourth; the six directions and similar words.

If an implied vocative is singular it will become indeclinable on a vocalized dummah , for example: یا رجلُ or an implied dummah , for example: یا فتیَ. If it is in the dual form it becomes indeclinable on an alif , for example: یا مُؤمنانِ. If it is a masculine sound plural it becomes indeclinable on a wāw , for example: یا مؤمنونَ.

If the subject of a lā that denies a whole genius is indefinite and singular (not a compliment to a prefixed noun or similar to a compliment to a prefixed noun) it is always made indeclinable on a fathah , for example: یا رَجُلَ في الدَّارِ.