ألستDo I not in Arabic

Example sentences

• أَلَسْت أرى الْأَعْضَاء مِنْك كواسيا

  Do I not see your limbs still well-clothed?

  أَلَسْتَ — Are you not. The question-marker 'a-' fused to the present-negation verb 'is not' — opening an incredulous, rhetorical 'is it not [so]…?'. It sets up the question about the lover's still-comfortable limbs.

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