رِجَالmen in Arabic

Example sentences

• إِلَّا رِجَالًا مُؤْمِنِينَ،

  Except for believing men,

  رجال — men. A masculine plural noun set in the object (accusative) form because the exception particle before it governs it that way. So its ending marks it as the carved-out exception, the group held apart from the general censure, and it heads the pairing the following adjective completes.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →

• وفى رواية كنت أحبها كأشد ما يحب الرجال النساء،

  In a narration, I used to love her as intensely as men love women.

  الرِّجَالُ — the men. This noun is the subject of the loving-verb just before, so it takes the plain (nominative) ending; the al- makes it definite. Because the verb came first, the verb stayed singular while this plural subject follows, the normal Arabic pattern.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →