حِمَارٌdonkey

Example sentences

• فقال الوالي إذاً خذ الناقة واعطه حمارك بدل الدراهم

  The governor said: Then take the camel and give him your donkey instead of the dirhams.

  حِمَارَكَ — your donkey. This is 'donkey' with the attached 'your' (male singular), a possessive, the donkey belonging to the addressee. It is the object of the command 'give' and takes the accusative ending. The suffix marks the animal as the Bedouin's, the proposed substitute payment.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• فقال الأعرابي ليس لي حمار

  The Bedouin said: I do not have a donkey.

  حِمَارٌ — a donkey. This is 'a donkey', indefinite, the subject of the 'is not' verb: 'not a donkey is to me'. It takes the nominative as that subject. Under the negation it means he owns no donkey at all.

  From: Justice in the Field →