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جَفَاءٌ curtness in Arabic

جَفَاءٌ is how you say “curtness” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَأَجَابَتْنِي بِجَوَابٍ فِيهِ جَفَاءٌ،

She answered me with a curt reply.

جَفَاءٌ curtness

This noun is the thing said to be 'in' the reply, and it works as the delayed subject of that little describing clause: 'a reply in which there was harshness'. Because the prepositional phrase came first, this subject follows it and stands in the plain subject form, naming what the curt answer contained.

From A Night of Reckoning

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