Arabic vocabulary
How to say “at all” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَلَمْ يَسْتَفْهِمْهَا كَلَامًا قِطًّا
He never asked her anything verbally.
قِطًّا — at all. This is an emphasizing adverb meaning 'at all, ever', dropped in to drive home the negation: 'never, not in the least'. It takes the indefinite accusative ending of an adverbial word and adds nothing to the literal content, only force. Its whole job is to make the 'did not ask' absolute.
From: Mothers and the Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like قِطًّا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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