yes, sorry. Fully edited now to give all the details.

Note that this is classical Arabic. Vernacular can be very different depending on the region. And even the classical can be pronouned in different ways depending on where the person is from.

It's even more interesting now!

*And you don't want to mess your pronouns up, it's very rude.

Do note classical Arabic is rarely used, if ever...well, outside of schools. Ugh. In informal, you can ignore the obscenely Oxford-like phonetic pronounciation ZFR used and just go with "Mamlakat al Shams", but there's still some syntax to be aware of, namely the silent "l" in "al", and the whole thing with the t as explained by ZFR. Diacritics are still important for pronouns: you has two versions, one feminine and one masculine, and they both have the same letters but the diacritics decide the gender.

(fun fact: I'm using a "solar al" which has the silent l and is silent when saying "The Sun" or "al Shams", while the non-silent l version is the lunar l and is spoken when saying "The Moon" or "al Qamar".)

(another fun fact: I hate Arabic)

TV news (and other programs, especially those aimed at pan-Arabic audience). Books. Anything that's written (vernacular can only be written phonetically) so signs... etc. The Paramount Leader's speeches. When two people with really different vernaculars (for example a Moroccan and an Iraqi) try to talk to each other. In Hollywood movies where the moron who does the translation uses classical Arabic when two peasants talk.

Interesting.

Btw can someone explain to me why some languages have two gendered forms for some words? Why not just use one?

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By the way, the three grammatical numbers in semitic languages make lots of sense. There is something fundamentally different between two and "sundry".

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