إضافة IDAAFA (EXCEPTIONS)

• if you want to add an adjective, it must come right at the end and will have the article ال (al):

   the elevated office of the client    مكتب العميل المرتفع  (muktabu al-'amili al- murtafa'u)
   the teacher’s luxurious house       بيت المدرس الفخم    (baitu al-mudarrisi al-fakhmu)

• Watch out for the sound masculine plural and the dual when they are the first noun in an idaafa. They lose the final nuun (ن):

مدرسون  teachers ➞ مدرسو* المدرسة      the teachers of the school
مدرسان  two teachers ➞ مدرسا** المدرسة   the two teachers of the school

* Changes to ي (-ii) in the accusative and genitive case
** Changes to ي (-ay) in the accusative and genitive case

The taa’ marbuuTa (ة) on the end of most feminine nouns is pronounced when the word is the first in the idaafa:

  مدينة لندن (madiinatu lundun) the city of London

• The first term of idaafa take the final nominative vowel u. BUT if first term is preceded by an arabic preposition which requires genitive case it must take the final vowel i:

  المفتاح في شنطة  الأم   (al-miftahu fi shantati l-ummi)