{"id":526,"date":"2007-04-14T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2007-04-14T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T10:29:00","slug":"arrg-arabic-and-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Arrg, Arabic and numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>OK, so I can count in Arabic. BTW, I was really shocked when I saw Arabic numbers (<\/div>\n<div>\u0660\u0661\u0662\u0663\u0664\u0665\u0666\u0667\u0668\u0669<\/div>\n<div>, that&#8217;s zero through nine, left to right) because I had always heard that we use &#8220;Arabic&#8221; numbers. Well, we use the Arabic system (ones, tens, hundreds, 0 as a place holder, etc.) but not their numbers. Anyway, learning new numbers is nothing as compared to learning how to use them properly in a sentence. There are seemingly endless rules about using numbers. In general, there is the singular, the dual, and plural. There is a special conjugation and noun structure whenever you are dealing with 2 of something (of course there&#8217;s a difference if you are talking about two masculine or 1 masculine and 1 feminine objects vs. 2 feminine objects), so that&#8217;s a whole &#8216;nother set of pronouns and ways of conjugating. Then there are the number rules. I think I&#8217;ve got these straight, but I reserve the right to edit them at a future date if I realize i screwed them up&#8230; OK, from 3 to 10, the nouns have to agree with the numbers (i.e. plural) but above that you only use the singular. From 3-11 (?) the number and the subject have the opposite gender, from 12-99 they have the same, and then they switch to the opposite for anything over 100. Of course when you have a sentence starting with a verb, you always use the singular no matter how many things you&#8217;re talking about (non human things take the singular feminine and with human plurals you make the verb agree). Sheesh&#8230; Part of me is curious as to how these rules developed but most of me doesn&#8217;t care, it&#8217;s just some more weird ephemera to learn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Isaac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/arabic\" rel=\"tag\">arabic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/yemen\" rel=\"tag\">yemen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/middle\" rel=\"tag\">middle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/east\" rel=\"tag\">east<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/language\" rel=\"tag\">language<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I can count in Arabic. BTW, I was really shocked when I saw Arabic numbers ( \u0660\u0661\u0662\u0663\u0664\u0665\u0666\u0667\u0668\u0669 , that&#8217;s zero through nine, left to right) because I had always heard that we use &#8220;Arabic&#8221; numbers. Well, we use the Arabic system (ones, tens, hundreds, 0 as a place holder, etc.) but not their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}