أَنِّي because I in Arabic
أَنِّي is how you say “because I” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ذكرتك لَا أَنِّي نستك سَاعَة
I mentioned you not because I forgot you for a moment...
أَنِّي because I
The heavy 'that' (anna) with '-i' (I) attached — 'that I', giving the (denied) cause: 'not [for the reason] that I…'. The 'anna' takes the attached pronoun as its noun.
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More example sentences
فَقَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ أَمَّا عَلِمْتَ أَنِّي لَا أَخَافُ مِنَ الْعَصَا وَلَا مِنَ الأَسْلِحَةِ
So he said to me, "O Abu Sa'id, did you not know that I do not fear the stick or the weapons?"
أَنِّي that I
The clause-opener 'that' fused with a first-person 'I' pronoun as its subject, introducing reported content. This 'that' governs its attached pronoun in the accusative. So one word both opens the 'that...' clause and supplies its 'I' subject: 'that I'.