كَئِب downcast in Arabic
كَئِب is how you say “downcast” in Arabic.
Arabic
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Example sentence
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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