Arabic vocabulary
How to say “else” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فإن اسم الفاعل هو من قام به الفعل سواء فعله هو أو غيره
For an active participle is one by whom the action is carried out, whether he performed it himself or someone else did.
غَيْرُهُ — someone else. A noun 'someone other' with -hu (his) attached, 'other than him / someone else', the second alternative. The attached -hu contrasts the other party against the 'he' just stressed; the word completes 'whether he did it or another did'.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →وهذا غير منكر في لغة أمة من الأمم فضلًا عن أوسع اللغات وأفصحها
And this is not denied in the language of any nation, let alone in the most expansive and eloquent of languages.
غَيْرُ — not. A word 'other than / not', negating the predicate by saying it is 'devoid of' it, and heading a possessive pairing with the passive participle after it: 'this is not-denied' built as 'this is other-than denied'.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →ونبه سبحانه بكونه دافقًا على أنه ضعيف غير متماسك
And He, glorified is He, indicated by its being gushing that it is weak and not solid.
غَيْرُ — not. A word 'other than / not', negating the next adjective by saying it is 'devoid of' it, and heading a possessive pairing with it: 'not solid' built as 'other-than solid'. It is paired in parallel with 'weak'.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →من ذَلِك الْوَجْه كَمَا استفاض فِي الصِّحَاح وَغَيرهَا
In this regard, as has been widely narrated in the Sahih collections and others.
غَيْرِهَا — other than it. This noun pairs with the attached 'them' as its owner, 'other than them', and stays in the genitive matching the item it is joined to. The pronoun points back to the collections, widening the sources beyond them.
From: Sincerity and Hypocrisy →OpenArabic teaches words like غير through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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