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Arabic alphabet and characters
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Arabic Lower-case and Upper-case Characters:
Arabic grammar rules
Nouns
Arabic nouns decline for
- gender (masculine, feminine)
- number (singular, plural, dual)
- case
- Raf” (Nominative)
- Nasb (Accusative/Dative/Vocative)
- Jarr (Genetive/Ablative)
- state (absolute, determinate, construct)
Verbs
Arabic formatting rules
Date formats
| First day of the week | Saturday |
| Working days | depends of country |
| Short date format | yyyy/m/d |
| e.g. 2016/3/24 | |
| Long date format | yyyy mmmm dd |
| e.g. 2016 سرام 24 |
Numbers and measurements
Arabic capitalisation usage
Use of capitalisation
- This section does not apply to Arabic.