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Rh the article is elided before it and the consonant itself doubled,  awāmmu-nnās, "common people,"  'abdu-llāh, "Abdullah" (the servant of Allah).

Accidence teaches us the modifications of which words are capable in order to express the various accidental circumstances of person, gender, number, time and place. Such modifications are called inflections, and extend to verbs and nouns alike.

The following are the only inflections used:

ā at the end of a word shows that it is masculine.

ī   feminine.

ā when further inflected becomes é.

The affixes é in nouns and  ēṅ in verbs express the masculine plural; when the are further infected they become  oṅ.

āṅ or iyāṅ express the feminine plural.