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هُنَّ
they (referring to a group of females) /ˈhunna/
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Also: them (feminine plural, in prepositional or possessive forms)
Example sentences
هُنَّ مُعَلِّمَاتٌ.
They are teachers.
هُنَّ يَلْعَبْنَ فِي الْحَدِيقَةِ.
They are playing in the garden.
هُنَّ اللَّاتِي فُزْنَ بِالْمُسَابَقَةِ.
They are the ones who won the competition.
ذَهَبْتُ مَعَهُنَّ إِلَى السُّوقِ.
I went with them to the market.
هُنَّ يَعْمَلْنَ جَاهِدَاتٍ مِنْ أَجْلِ مُسْتَقْبَلٍ أَفْضَلَ.
They are working hard for a better future.
لَوْلَا مُسَاعَدَتُهُنَّ، لَمَا نَجَحَ الْمَشْرُوعُ.
Without their help, the project would not have succeeded.
Word family
همthey (masculine plural)
هماthey (dual)
هيshe
ـهنّthem/their (attached feminine plural suffix)
Etymology
Hunna is the third-person feminine plural pronoun in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic. It belongs to the old Semitic set of personal pronouns built on the consonant h, which also gives huwa (he), hiya (she), and hum (they, masculine). The doubled n marks plural and pairs with the same n found in the masculine hum and the dual huma.
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