غَرِيبٌa stranger in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَرَآهُ عَلِيُّ فَعَرَفَ أَنَّهُ غَرِيبٌ

  Then Ali saw him and realized that he was a stranger.

  غَرِيبٌ — a stranger. The completing word of 'that he was a stranger', standing bare without 'the' to mean 'a stranger'. It is the predicate said about 'he', with no separate 'was' word — Arabic states such equations by juxtaposition.

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