Arabic vocabulary
How to say “correct” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
هكذا يتحوّل الذِّكرُ إلى مدرسةٍ يومية يعلّمك النظرَ الصحيح، يطهّر لسانك من اللغو، ويَشدُّ قلبَك إلى ربّه،
This is how remembrance becomes a daily school: it teaches you correct perception, purifies your tongue from idle talk, and binds your heart to its Lord,
الصَّحِيحَ — correct. 'the correct, sound', adjective on 'perceiving', agreeing as definite and accusative. The matched al- and case bind it to 'perceiving' — 'sound seeing'.
From: Turning Daily Words into Worship →هذا هو الصحيح في معنى الآية
This is the correct interpretation of the verse.
الصَّحِيحُ — the correct. A describing noun 'the correct one', serving as the predicate equated with 'this'. As the complement of the equational sentence it takes the nominative ending and its own 'the'.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →وَقَالَ النَّبِي فيهم فِي الحَدِيث الصَّحِيح
And the Prophet said about them in the authentic hadith,
الصَّحِيحِ — authentic. This is an adjective describing the hadith, agreeing with that noun in being definite and in its genitive case, as Arabic adjectives must match their noun. So its ending mirrors the noun's, attaching 'authentic' as a quality.
From: Sincerity and Hypocrisy →OpenArabic teaches words like صحيح through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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