Arabic vocabulary
بَصْرَة is how you say “Basra” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
روي أن رجلا دخل البصرة، ولم يكن رأى الحسن،
It is narrated that a man entered Basra, who had not seen Al-Hasan,
البَصْرَةَ — Basra. This place name is the destination entered, so it sits in the object form, the case this verb assigns to where it lands. Even a definite proper place takes that object shape as the receiver of the entering.
From: The Grandson's Noble Grief →OpenArabic teaches words like بَصْرَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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