Arabic vocabulary
كَئِبdowncast
How to say “downcast” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَلَمَّا جَلَسَ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ لِسَيِّدِهِ مَا لِي أَرَاكَ كَئِبًا حَزِينًا
When he sat down beside him, he said to his master, "What is the matter? I see you downcast and sorrowful."
كَئِبًا — downcast. An adjective in the object form (the '-an' tail), describing the 'you' object of 'I see' as 'downcast'. Arabic puts such a describing predicate after a perception verb into the object case to mean 'I see you (being) downcast'. It is the first of two state-words on 'you'.
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