Arabic vocabulary
حَوْلَكَ is how you say “around you” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَأَنَا أَنْفُضُ لَكَ مَا حَوْلَكَ فَنَامَ،
And I was brushing off for you whatever was around you, so he slept.
حَوْلَكَ — around you. A locative word, 'around', fused with the pronoun '-ka' (you), so one word means 'around you'. It forces that attached pronoun into the 'of'-style ending and fixes the zone being cleared. The '-ka' points to the single male addressee.
From: A Night with the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like حَوْلَكَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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