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هُما
they two (both of them) /ˈhu.maː/
otherB1#1791 most common
Also: the two of them, they both, those two
Example sentences
هُما طالِبان.
They two are students.
هُما في البَيت.
The two of them are in the house.
هُما صَديقَتان مُنذُ الطُّفولة.
They two are friends since childhood.
هَل هُما قادِمان إلى الحَفلة؟
Are the two of them coming to the party?
أَخَواكَ، هُما اللَّذان ساعَداني في العَمَل.
Your two brothers, they are the ones who helped me with the work.
لَم أَكُن أَعلَم أَنَّهُما كانا يَعمَلان مَعاً على هٰذا المَشروع طَوال السَّنة.
I did not know that the two of them had been working together on this project all year.
Word family
Etymology
هُما is the dual third-person pronoun in Arabic, marking exactly two people or things. It is built on the base pronoun هُو (he) with the dual marker. The dual is a grammatical category that Arabic preserves from Proto-Semitic, separate from singular and plural.
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