مُجَاجَةbored

Example sentences

• فإن الأذن مجة والقلب حمض

  For the ear grows bored and the heart grows weary

  مَجَّاجَةٌ — bored. The predicate of the 'indeed' clause, taking the -un ending; what is asserted of the ear, linked with no verb 'to be'. The doubled-pattern adjective gives the 'easily-tiring' sense.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →

• فإن الأذن مجاجة والقلب ذو تقلب

  For the ear grows weary and the heart is fickle.

  مَجَّاجَةٌ — grows weary. This is the predicate, the thing being said about the ear. Arabic needs no verb 'is' to join subject and description; the two simply sit together and the link is understood. The word is in the indefinite nominative, which is the default ending for the part of an inna-sentence that delivers the new information.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →

• إن الأذن مجاجة والقلب حمض

  Indeed, the ear grows weary and the heart grows weary.

  مَجَّاجَةٌ — grows weary. The predicate describing the ear, joined to it with no verb 'is', the way Arabic normally links a subject to a one-word description. It takes the nominative ending, the default for the information-bearing half of an inna-sentence, balancing the accusative on the subject.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →