كَبِيرٌelder

Example sentences

• وأقل محنة الكبير أن تقع النواة في الكوز،

  The smallest trial of the elder is for the kernel to fall into the jug.

  الكَبِيرِ — of the elder. The owning half of 'trial of the elder', in the genitive because it completes the possessive pairing. The ending and order carry the 'of' with no separate word, attributing the trial to the aged person it weighs on.

  From: God's Promise of New Life →

• وَهُوَ كِتَابٌ كَبِيرٌ جِدًّا،

  It is a very large book.

  كَبِيرٌ — large. An adjective describing the book. It agrees with that noun in being masculine and indefinite, and its matching endings are what bind it to 'book' rather than to anything else. It supplies the first quality of the work.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →