Breakdown of نحن الآن في سنة ألف وأربعمئة وأربع وأربعين الهجرية.
الal
the
وwa
and
الآنal-ân
now
فيfî
in / about, regarding
نحنnahnu
we
أربعةarba'a
four
سنةsana
year
أربعونarba'ûna
forty
ألفalf
thousand
أربعمئةarba'umi'ah
four hundred
هجريhijrî
A.H. (Hijri)
Questions & Answers about نحن الآن في سنة ألف وأربعمئة وأربع وأربعين الهجرية.
Why is every part of the number 1444 in the genitive case here?
The number is the second part of an idafa (genitive construct) following the word سنة (year). Because the parts of a large compound number are connected by the conjunction و (and), they all must share the same case. This makes every single part genitive: ألف and أربعمئة and أربع and أربعين.
Why is the number 4 written in its masculine form (أربع) when it refers to a feminine word like سنة?
In Arabic, numbers from 3 to 9 take the opposite gender of the singular noun they are counting. Since سنة is feminine, the number four takes its masculine form, أربع. This reverse agreement rule still applies even when the digit is part of a much larger compound number.
Why does forty appear as أربعين instead of أربعون?
The tens (20 through 90) decline just like sound masculine plural nouns. Because the entire number phrase must be in the genitive case here, the word for forty takes the genitive suffix ـين (-in) instead of the nominative suffix ـون (-un).
Why does the adjective الهجرية have a definite article when سنة does not?
The word سنة cannot take a definite article because it is the first word of an idafa (genitive construct) attached to the year number. However, the idafa as a whole is considered definite because it refers to a specific known year. Since الهجرية is an adjective describing this specific definite year, it must take the definite article to match.
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