Chapter Four The Definite Article and the Adjective
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The definite article is [ARABIC TEXT] plus a dagesh forte in the next letter.
Adjectives indicate gender and number by four endings: ø for masculine singular; [ARABIC TEXT] for feminine singular; [ARABIC TEXT] for masculine plural; and [ARABIC TEXT] for feminine plural.
Predicate adjectives form a sentence; attributive adjectives do not.
The basic reduction rule is as follows: tonic lengthening, pretonic lengthening, propretonic reduction, and distant reduction. The complete reduction rule is the fundamental idea for this and the next five lessons.