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Here again with you with another episode of learning something from Dr. Samir Aizbuk at the Arabic Qur'ani

We talked yesterday about superplurals, right? Yeah

Sometimes in Arabic on classical Arabic the thing itself is not a superplural

The way you describe it

Could be super or lesser

Okay, so the adjective could be super or lesser so to take let's go to the screen. I'll show you an English

Version of that so you have an idea of what I'm saying because that sounds odd if I say for example

blue cars

Blue cars

Right

Now it may be that the word cars is still cars

But the way that they said blue can tell you that this one is way more

They can have a super plural way of describing the using the word blue and that's telling you you're talking about way more cars

Okay, so this is actually another

Really neat feature of Arabic that even by the way something is being described you can tell more of them are being talked about

okay

And there are there's another way of using the word blue hypothetically that if you used it you're talking about something that's very little

So there's a maximum

You know plural must maximize and plural must minimize like there's I made that up but a plural that or are an adjective even that

Tells you that this plural is way more and the other one is way less even though the word blue has nothing to do with more or less

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