Arabic vocabulary
سَيِّئevil in Arabic
سَيِّئ is how you say “evil” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَكَانَ عَاقًّا سَيِّئًا الْطِّبَاعِ،
He was disobedient and of bad character.
سَيِّئًا — bad. A describing word that heads a tight pairing with the noun after it, meaning 'bad of ...'; on its own it is incomplete and waits for that noun. Its accusative ending continues the 'he was ...' frame from the verb two words back. So it is both a complement of 'was' and the opener of a quality phrase.
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