Breakdown of يتابع المتابعون المؤثرين.
الal
the
تابعtâba'a
to follow
متابعmutâbi'
follower
مؤثرmu'aththir
influencer
Questions & Answers about يتابع المتابعون المؤثرين.
Why does "followers" end in ـون (-uun) but "influencers" ends in ـين (-iin)?
This is how regular masculine plurals show their grammatical role in a sentence. المتابعون (followers) is the subject doing the action, so it takes the nominative ending ـون (-uun). المؤثرين (influencers) is the direct object receiving the action, so it takes the accusative ending ـين (-iin).
Why is the verb يتابع (follows) singular when the subject is plural?
In Arabic, when a sentence starts with the verb (a verbal sentence), the verb stays singular even if the subject following it is plural. Since the subject is masculine, we use the basic "he" form of the verb, يتابع. If you put the noun first (المتابعون), the verb would have to become plural (يتابعون).
The words for "follows" and "followers" look almost the same. How do they relate?
They share the same root letters: ت-ب-ع. يتابع is the present tense verb "follows". متابع (mutaabi') is a noun made from that verb, meaning "one who follows". Adding the plural and "the" gives us المتابعون, which works just like adding "-ers" in English.
How do you pronounce the word for influencers, المؤثرين?
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