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أَنْتُما
you two /ˈʔantumaː/
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Also: you both, the two of you
Example sentences
أَنْتُما طالِبانِ.
You two are students.
هَلْ أَنْتُما جاهِزانِ؟
Are you two ready?
أَيْنَ أَنْتُما الآنَ؟
Where are you two now?
أَنْتُما صَديقانِ مُنْذُ الطُّفولَةِ.
You two have been friends since childhood.
أَظُنُّ أَنَّكُما تَعْرِفانِ الطَّريقَ، فَأَنْتُما مِنْ أَهْلِ هٰذِهِ المَدينَةِ.
I think you two know the way, since you two are from this city.
لَوْلا أَنْتُما لَمَا أُنْجِزَ هٰذا العَمَلُ في مَوْعِدِهِ.
Had it not been for you two, this work would not have been finished on time.
Word family
أَنْتَyou (m. sg.)
أَنْتِyou (f. sg.)
أَنْتُمْyou (m. pl.)
أَنْتُنَّyou (f. pl.)
ـكُماyou two (object/possessive suffix)
Etymology
The pronoun joins the second-person base أنت (ʔant) with the dual marker ـما (-mā). The base descends from Proto-Semitic *ʔanta, the independent pronoun for the person addressed. Arabic preserved a separate dual for 'you two,' a category most sister Semitic languages folded into the plural.
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