Arabic vocabulary
طُفُولِيَّة is how you say “childhood” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وعلى علي الذي من زمن الطفولية في الإسلام ربي،
And upon Ali, who was nurtured in Islam since childhood.
ٱلطُّفُولِيَّةِ — childhood. The al- makes this definite, 'the childhood'. As the owner closing the pairing 'the time of childhood', it stands directly after the owned noun and takes the -i possessor ending.
From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →OpenArabic teaches words like طُفُولِيَّة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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