Lesson 10 - The ي YAA of calling النداء

THE YAA OF CALLING

Today’s lesson in sha’a Allah will be regarding the ‘YAA’ of calling, meaning, how to call someone ‘O so-and-so…! ‘

Before we start with that, we need to revise something quickly. You have probably noticed that there are times when the tanween ( -un/ -an/ -in ) disappears. And what are those cases?

1. When we have the definite article AL ال

2. When we have mudaf and mudaf ilayhi where the mudaf does not have tanween

And today we are going to learn the third case, and this is when we have YAA ( meaning ‘O’ ) before a word.

How do we construct it?

First of all, we need to remember that we said the proper names like Muhammad and Khaalid, have tanween at the end.

If we now wanted to say ‘O Muhammad!’then you will probably think that we say YAA MuhammadUN?

But it is not the case, as mentioned before when the YAA comes before a noun with tanween then the tanween is lost and we have remaining only a single harakah which we can see in PICTURE 1.

What about when words have the definite aarticle ال AL?

Then we have a totally different ruling, and that is that for the masculine word we add ayyuha أَيُّهَا and for the feminine word which is definite with AL we add أَيَّتُهَا.

يا ايها

Masculine

يا ايتها

Feminine

See PICTURE 2 for examples from the Qur'an.