مِنَّاfrom us

Example sentences

• ونظيره قوله سبحان ﴿لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَلا هُمْ مِنَّا يُصْحَبُونَ﴾

  And similar is His saying, the Exalted: 'They cannot aid themselves, nor are they supported by Us.'

  مِنَّا — by Us. This fuses the preposition 'from' with an attached 'us'. The preposition governs that pronoun, and together they mark the agent, 'by/from us', placed early for emphasis. One word stands for 'from us', which English keeps as two.

  From: Oaths That Seal the Truth →

• فَأَصَابُوا مِّنَّا سَبْعِينَ،

  So they struck seventy of us.

  مِّنَّا — from us. A preposition 'from' fused with an 'us' ('-na') ending, so one word means 'from us'; in this partitive sense it marks the seventy as taken out of the speaker's side. The preposition holds the attached pronoun in the genitive.

  From: A Companion at Battle →

• أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ الْجَنَّةَ فَمَا قَامَ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ

  Allah admitted him to Paradise, and none of us stood up.

  مِنّا — from us. This is the preposition 'from/of' fused with the ending 'us', marking the group out of which no one stood. Its role is partitive: it carves the 'none' out of a larger 'us'. The attached pronoun is why one word covers the English 'of us'.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• فَوَاللَّهِ مَا قَامَ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ

  By God, none of us stood up.

  مِنَّا — from us. This is the preposition 'from/of' fused with 'us', marking the group none of whom rose. Its role is partitive, carving the 'none' out of the larger 'us'. The attached pronoun is why one word stands for 'of us'.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• فَوَاللَّهِ مَا قَامَ أَحَدٌ مِنَّا

  By God, not one of us stood up.

  مِنَّا — from us. This is the preposition 'from/of' fused with 'us', marking the group out of which none rose. Its role is partitive, isolating the 'none' from a larger 'us'. The attached pronoun is why one word equals 'of us'.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →