Breakdown of الشارع رقم تسعة واسع.
الal
the
واسعwâsi'
spacious / wide
شارعshâri'
street
رقمraqm
number
تسعةtis'a
nine
Questions & Answers about الشارع رقم تسعة واسع.
Why does the number تسعة end with a feminine ة when الشارع is masculine?
Because we are not directly counting streets here. We are just stating the abstract digit: number nine (رقم تسعة). When we use numbers 1-10 just to count aloud or read a digit, we use their default bare form. For numbers 3 to 10, this bare counting form always ends with the feminine marker ة.
Where is the word for 'is' in this sentence?
Arabic doesn't use a word for 'is' in present-tense sentences like this. We know it means 'is wide' because we start with a specific defined subject, الشارع (the street), and follow it with an indefinite descriptive word, واسع (wide). This pattern creates a complete 'is' sentence automatically.
Why doesn't واسع have ال (al-) attached to it?
If we added ال to make it الواسع, it would match the definite street and just form a descriptive phrase meaning 'the wide street'. Leaving the adjective indefinite (without ال) tells us it is the predicate, completing the thought to mean 'the street IS wide'.
How do we know واسع is describing the street and not the number nine?
The word الشارع (the street) is masculine, so it takes the masculine adjective واسع. The word for nine here, تسعة, has a feminine ending. If the sentence was trying to describe the number itself as wide, it would have used the feminine adjective واسعة.
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