Arabic vocabulary
ثَّمانِينَeighty in Arabic
ثَّمانِينَ is how you say “eighty” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَقَدْ قَارَبَ الثَّمانِينَ
He was almost eighty.
الثَّمانِينَ — eighty. A number word standing as the thing he approached, the object of the nearing verb. It carries al- because in Arabic round decades like this are treated as definite when naming the age reached. It is the target the approaching verb points at.
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