كَثِيرَةgreat

Example sentences

• ورب منفعة قليلة تجر إلى مضرة كثيرة

  and a small benefit might lead to great harm.

  كَثِيرَةٍ — great. An adjective meaning 'much' or 'great', describing the harm. It follows its noun and matches its indefiniteness and possessive-case ending, the regular pattern for Arabic adjectives.

  From: Think Before You Act →

• وَالْآيَاتُ فِي ذَلِكَ كَثِيرَةٌ

  And the verses concerning this are numerous.

  كَثِيرَةٌ — are numerous. An adjective serving as predicate, 'many/numerous', completing 'the verses about that are many'. As predicate it matches its subject in being feminine, and Arabic supplies no 'are'.

  From: The Sin of Idolatry →

• وَكَانَ يُرْسِلُ أَشْعَارًا كَثِيرَةً إِلَى بَغْدَادِ

  He would send many poems to Baghdad.

  كَثِيرَةً — many. An adjective describing the poems. Notice it takes a feminine-singular shape even though the noun is plural: Arabic treats most non-human plurals as if they were a single feminine thing for agreement, so a 'group' of poems is described with a singular feminine word. Its -an ending matches the indefinite object it modifies.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →