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أَلَسْتَ are you not in Arabic

أَلَسْتَ is how you say “are you not” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَلَسْتَ تَزَعْمُ أَنَّهُ لَا يُصِيبُكَ إِلَّا مَا كُتِبَ اللَّهُ لَكَ

So he said to him, "Do you not claim that nothing will befall you except what God has decreed for you?"

أَلَسْتَ are you not

A yes/no question built by gluing the question marker onto the negative verb 'are not', addressed to a single 'you' (the ending carries that second-person singular). Asking with a negative like this is rhetorical: it expects agreement, nudging the listener toward 'yes, of course I do'.

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