هَذَا مُعَلَّمٌ , هَذِهِ مُعَلَّمَةٌ
This is a (male) teacher. هَذَا مُعَلَّمٌ
This is a (female) teacher. هَذِهِ مُعَلَّمَةٌ
I know هَذَا and هَذِهِ changed because of masculine and feminine nouns. But, why did مٌ change into مَةٌ ?
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In arabic you can reveal Masculin from feminin just from the word itself
for example , in english if we say : a teacher
We can't reveal if it's a feminin teacher or masculin
but in arabic , if you say معلمة so it's feminin
So , هذا هذه is only demonstratives , in fact adding a ة will make the word feminin
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Welcome, Hope! :)
Yes, it's called a "taa' marbuTa" and it shows what words are feminine. As your vocabulary grows, you will learn that there are exceptions, of course. Not every feminine word ends with a "taa' marbuTa", and there are some masculine words with one.
Most of them follow the pattern of your example.
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Correction:
This is a (male) teacher. هَذَا مُعَلِّمٌ (mo'alim instead of mo'alam)
This is a (female) teacher. هَذِهِ مُعَلِّمَةٌ (mo'alima instead of mo'alama)
اللام تكون مكسورة، يعني الكسرة تحت الشدة وليس فوقها
And concerning "ة" it's the same, we add it for the feminine case
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When it's a feminine noun , we add ة at the end of the word.
for example:
معلم ، معلمة
طبيب ، طبيبة
أستاذ ، أستاذة
محاسب ، محاسبة
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for the same reason (because of masculine and feminine nouns)
ex. he is an engineer هو مهندس
she is an engineer هي مهندسة
good luck :)
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