Arabic vocabulary
كَتِيبَةٌ is how you say “a detachment” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فَمَرَّتْ كَتِيبَةٌ قَالَ يَا عَبَّاسُ مَنْ هَذِهِ
Then a detachment passed by. He said, "O Abbas, who are these?"
كَتِيبَةٌ — a detachment. A feminine noun 'detachment' standing as the doer of 'passed', and indefinite ('a detachment'), shown by the '-un' tail, which is the indefinite subject ending. It is what the feminine verb before it agrees with.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →حَتَّى أَقْبَلَتْ كَتِيبَةٌ لَمْ يَرَ مِثْلَهَا،
Until a company arrived unlike any he had ever seen,
كَتِيبَةٌ — company. An indefinite feminine noun 'company / troop' standing as the doer of 'arrived', shown by the '-un' indefinite subject ending. It is what the feminine verb before it agrees with, and the relative clause that follows describes it.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →ثُمَّ جَاءَتْ كَتِيبَةٌ، وَهِيَ أَقَلُّ الْكَتَائِبِ،
Then a detachment arrived, and it was the smallest of the detachments.
كَتِيبَةٌ — a detachment. An indefinite feminine noun 'a detachment' standing as the doer of 'arrived', shown by the '-un' indefinite subject ending. It is what the feminine verb before it agrees with, and the clause that follows describes it.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like كَتِيبَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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