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Are Aristotle’s forms real things?

Plato clearly sees his forms to be real existent things, but it’s not clear to me if Aristotle sees his version of the forms to be real or simply explanatory properties of things. Are forms substance?
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For Aristotle, forms are certainly real, but they are not substances. Substances are composites of form and matter (more precisely, matter organized by a substantial form is what makes it a substance).

Unlike Plato, Aristotle’s forms don’t exist in some separate realm apart from the physical world; forms can only be said to “exist” insofar as they are “in” a physical substance. Similarly, matter doesn’t “exist” separately from form (although things get a bit confusing when you look closely at prime matter); matter is always organized by a form in some way or the other.