أَيَّامَdays

Example sentences

• فاغتنم أيام شبابك قبل هرمك،

  So seize the days of your youth before your old age.

  أَيَّامَ — the days of. This noun opens a possessive pair, 'the days of your youth', as the object of 'seize' and so in the object form. It links straight onto the owning noun with no word for 'of'.

  From: While You Still Can →

• فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ أَنْتَ أَحَقُّ بِذَلِكَ فَصَلَّى أَبُو بَكْرٍ تِلْكَ الأَيَّامَ،

  Umar said to him, "You are more entitled to that," so Abu Bakr led the prayer during those days.

  الأَيَّامَ — days. A plural noun, 'days', in the accusative, here functioning as a time-span over which the action happened; Arabic uses the accusative to mark such 'during/for' adverbial stretches without a preposition.

  From: Prayer During Illness →