Arabic vocabulary
How to say “fine” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فقيل لهم كل العبادات طعام وتعبد هذا دقيق الكيس،
It was said to them, "All acts of worship are sustenance, and this devotion is the finest of discernment."
دَقِيقُ — the finest. This noun is what is said about the topic, the predicate, in the plain subject ending, and it is also the first half of a possessive pair. As the leading noun it leans on the next word to say finest of what.
From: Adam and the Rebel →فَكَانَ نَقْلُهُمْ لِمَا سَمِعُوهُ وَشَاهَدُوهُ وَتَعَلَّمُوهُ مِنْهُ دَقِيقًا،
Thus their reporting of what they had heard, seen, and learned from him was precise.
دَقِيقًا — precise. The predicate of the 'to be' clause, an adjective 'precise', describing how the reporting was. Its accusative -an ending (audible tanween) marks it as the description following the 'to be' verb: 'their reporting ... was precise'.
From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →OpenArabic teaches words like دَقِيقٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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