مِّنِّيfrom me

Example sentences

• فَٱمْتَنَعَتْ مِّنِّي حَتَّى أَلَمَّتْ بِهَا سَنَةٌ مِنَ السِّنِينَ،

  So she refused from me until a year of hardship befell her.

  مِّنِّي — from me. A preposition 'from' fused with a first-person 'me' pronoun, 'from me'. The preposition marks the speaker as the one she held back from, naming whom her refusal was directed against.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• قَالَ فَأَخَذَنِي فَغَطَّنِي حَتَّى بَلَغَ مِنِّي الْجُهْدُ

  He said, "Then he seized me and covered me until I reached the limit of my strength."

  مِّنِّي — from me. A preposition fused with 'me', one word for two, marking the speaker as the one out of whom the exertion was drawn. The doubled-n sound is just how the joining is pronounced; its job is to tie the limit to him.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →

• فَاشْتَرَاهُ مِنِّي بِأُوقِيَّةٍ،

  Then he bought it from me for a small coin.

  مِّنِّي — from me. This is the preposition 'from' with an attached 'me', where the two n-sounds run together (the 'from' and the pronoun's linking n). It marks the speaker as the source of the sale, the pronoun in the genitive form a preposition takes.

  From: Marriage and Financial Justice →