When is nuun نون omitted for dual nouns?

[Sentinel_B]

I have noticed that the trailing "nuun" is sometimes omitted for nouns in the dual form. Can someone please explain the circumstances in which this should happen? Thanks.

 

[rayloom]

If it occurs in the construct state. i.e. in an iDafa construction, where it's the possessed, and the following noun is the possessor.

For the nominative case:
kitaabaan(i) (2 books)
kitaabaa mu7ammad (Mohammed's 2 books)

For the oblique (accusative and genitive):
kitaabayn(i)
kitaabay mu7ammad

 

[Sentinel_B]

Thanks for the (lightning fast) reply. Can you please confirm that this is the only circumstance in which this happens?

 

[rayloom]

The trailing nuun also disappears in the maculine regular plural in the same situation. And the nunation of the indefinite is reduced to the grammatical case short vowel in the construct also, and if preceded by al-.

baytun (a house)
al-baytu
baytu mu7ammad

mudarrisuun (teachers)
mudarrisuu 'l-madrasah (teachers of the school)

 

[clevermizo]

I just wanted to add that this nuun also is removed when adding the personal possessive suffixes (you might say that this is the same as 2iDaafa anyway).

 

[Sentinel_B]

The trailing nuun also disappears in the maculine regular plural in the same situation.

Could you provide an example. Thanks.

 

[rayloom]

No prob

mudarrisuun (teachers)
mudarrisuu 'l-madrasah (teachers of the school)

 

[Sentinel_B]

I just wanted to add that this nuun also is removed when adding the personal possessive suffixes (you might say that this is the same as 2iDaafa anyway).

So you would say Kitabaakum for "Your (p) Two books" in the Nominative?

 

[Abu Rashid]

fi yadayka for 'in your two hands'.

 

[rayloom]

So you would say Kitabaakum for "Your (p) Two books" in the Nominative?

Yes that's correct.