أحسنbetter

Example sentences

• وأما العيشة الراضية فالوصف بها أحسن من الوصف بالمرضية

  As for the 'contented life,' describing it this way is better than describing it as 'a life one is pleased with.'

  أَحْسَنُ — is better. A superlative 'better / more excellent', the predicate: 'describing it this way is better'. Comparatives and superlatives share this fixed pattern in Arabic and stay invariable here; it sets up a comparison completed by 'than'.

  From: Creating Life from Nothing →

• ﴿وَقُلْ لِعِبَادِي يَقُولُوا الَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ﴾،

  'Say to My servants to speak that which is best',

  أَحْسَنُ — best. An adjective in its 'more/most' shape, here 'best' or 'better'. Arabic forms the comparative and superlative by reshaping the adjective into a fixed pattern rather than adding separate words like English 'more' or 'most'; one word carries the whole degree of comparison.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →