verb proceeds noun
اطلاب دهب السيارت وصلت two contradicting rules as far as I understood. One says verb must agree on gender and number with a noun if it comes after it while in contrast another says verb must be is singular and feminine form irrespective of word order if a noun is plural form. Really confusing. I dont think someone will understand it :/
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It's depending.. I'll show you few examples...
The boys played football: الأولاد لعبوا كرة القدم
The boy played football: الولد لعب كرة القدم
The girl played football الفتاة لعبت كرة القدم
As you see, the verb should agree on gender and number because the subject is before it
The boys played football: لعب الأولاد كرة القدم
The boy played football: لعب الولد كرة القدم
The girl played football لعبت الفتاة كرة القدم
But here, the verb only agree on gender
Hope that this was helpful : )
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The plural you mean is the (irregular plural ) , sometimes we deal with it as feminine noun like in (شوارع ، بيوت ، أبواب ، كواكب ) but rarely not ..like ( أشخاص ) this is the only word I remember
So it would be like
People are coming أشخاص قادمون / قدم أشخاص (rare case with the irregular plural)
The planets move تتحرك الكواكب / الكواكب تتحرك
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