أَرْبَعِينforty

Example sentences

• يخرج الدجال في أمتى فيمكث أربعين لا أدري يوماً أو أربعين شهراً، أو أربعين عاماً،

  The Dajjal will appear in my nation and will remain for forty—I do not know whether days or months or years.

  أَرْبَعِينَ — for forty. This is the number 'forty', in the accusative to mark a span of time — 'forty [units]'. Arabic puts a duration like this in the accusative. The speaker then admits he is unsure of the unit.

  From: The Return of Jesus →

• يخرج الدجال في أمتى فيمكث أربعين لا أدري يوماً أو أربعين شهراً، أو أربعين عاماً،

  The Dajjal will appear in my nation and will remain for forty—I do not know whether days or months or years.

  أَرْبَعِينَ — forty. The number 'forty' again, in the accusative of duration, repeated for the second guessed unit. Arabic restates the number with each option rather than leaving it understood.

  From: The Return of Jesus →

• يخرج الدجال في أمتى فيمكث أربعين لا أدري يوماً أو أربعين شهراً، أو أربعين عاماً،

  The Dajjal will appear in my nation and will remain for forty—I do not know whether days or months or years.

  أَرْبَعِينَ — forty. The number 'forty' once more, accusative of duration, for the third option. Repeating it keeps each guess fully stated.

  From: The Return of Jesus →