Breakdown of تشارك الطالبات ذوات الإعاقة البصرية في المشروع.
الal
the
طالبtâlib
student
شارك فيshâraka fî
to participate in
مشروعmashrû'
project / draft (bill)
بصريbasariyy
visual
ذاتdhâtu
possessor of, with
إعاقةi'âqah
disability
Questions & Answers about تشارك الطالبات ذوات الإعاقة البصرية في المشروع.
Why do we use ذوات here instead of ذات?
ذوات is the feminine plural form of ذات (which is the feminine of ذو). Because the noun it describes, الطالبات (the female students), is a human feminine plural, the word for "those with" must also be feminine plural.
What case ending does ذوات take in this sentence and why?
It takes a damma (nominative case), making it ذواتُ. Even though it is the first part of an Idafa construction (meaning it can never take ال or nunation), its grammatical case is determined by the noun it describes. Since it acts as an adjective modifying the subject الطالبات (which is nominative), ذوات must also be nominative.
If ذوات is acting as an adjective for the definite word الطالبات, why doesn't it have the definite article ال attached to it?
Words like ذو and ذوات are always the first part of an Idafa (possession) structure, so they can never take ال. Instead, they become definite by attaching to a definite noun. Because the following word, الإعاقة, has ال, the entire phrase ذوات الإعاقة becomes definite, which allows it to correctly match the definiteness of الطالبات.
As a refresher, why is the verb تشارك in the singular form when the subject is plural?
In Arabic, when the verb comes before an explicit subject, it always remains singular, regardless of how many people are doing the action. Because الطالبات is feminine, the verb simply takes the feminine singular form تشارك.
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