Arabic vocabulary
شَكْوَىcomplaint
How to say “complaint” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فلما حضر قال للأعرابي ما شكواك؟
When he appeared, he asked the Bedouin: What is your complaint?
شَكْوَاكَ — is your complaint. This is 'complaint' with the attached pronoun 'your' (male singular) on its end, the two forming a possessive, the complaint belonging to the addressee. There is no verb 'is'; the question word and this noun simply pair to mean 'what is your complaint'.
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