There are three grammatical numbers in Arabic – single, double and plural. In this case, grammatical persons divide in the same way, and additionally they divide by gender! Where the sex is not clearly visible, there is a division between the male and female versions. Nowadays, the double number is used less and less frequently in colloquial speech and gradually begins to fade away. This is a natural linguistic process. It was the same in Polish, for example, where there was also a double number, but it disappeared completely. Personal pronouns in Arabic are an interesting phenomenon.

Personal pronouns

MSA currently uses 15 personal pronouns. 5 in the singular, 5 in the double and 5 in the plural. The pronoun ‘we’ is identical for the double and the plural. All of these “people” are used depending on who we want to talk about – the same way as it is in different languages. 

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