أَرْبَعَةَfour

Example sentences

• وَرَقُ السَّمْرِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ

  The samar tree's foliage lasted for four months.

  أَرْبَعَةَ — four. A counting word, 'four', heading a number-plus-counted phrase; here it sits in the accusative because the whole phrase measures duration, 'for four months'. Arabic carries the 'for' inside this accusative framing rather than using a separate word.

  From: The Secret Migration →

• أَوْدَعَ قَلْبَهُ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْيَاءَ

  He placed four things in his heart.

  أَرْبَعَةَ — four. A numeral ('four') in the object ending, the thing deposited. With the small numbers, it heads its counted noun and forces it to stay plural and genitive; here it carries the object ending because the verb governs the whole 'four things' as its object.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →

• عَلَّمَهُ أَرْبَعَةَ أَسْمَاءٍ مِنْ أَسْمَائِهِ

  He taught him four of His names.

  أَرْبَعَة — four. The number 'four', here the thing taught, so it stands as the verb's direct object and takes the object (accusative) ending. As a number from three to ten it leads, and the noun it counts ('names') follows in a tight unit.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →