نَفْسِي for myself in Arabic
نَفْسِي is how you say “for myself” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَاللَّهِ مَا كَانَ يَقَعُ فِي نَفْسِي إِلَّا ذَاكَ
By God, nothing occurred in my mind except that.
نَفْسِي my self
A noun fused with 'my', here 'my self/mind', its attached first-person possessor showing whose inner thought this is. One word carries both the noun and 'my'.
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قَالَ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَصْرُخَنَّ بِهَا بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْهِمْ،
He said, "By the One in whose hand my soul is, I will certainly call out with it between their shoulder-blades."
نَفْسِي my soul
A noun carrying the attached -i 'my' on its end, so possessor and possessed sit in one word. Inside the oath it names exactly what is being held: the speaker's own soul, pledged as the thing in God's hand.
يَا أَيُّهَا السَّائِلُ عَنْ مَنْزِلِي نَزَلْتُ فِي الْخَانِ عَلَى نَفْسِي،
O questioner who asks about my dwelling, I stayed at the inn by myself.
نَفْسِي my self
A reflexive 'self' noun ending in -i 'my', so it fuses 'self' with the speaker as owner. Sitting after the preposition it takes the genitive, reading 'on my own self', the basis of the 'by myself' idiom.