Arabic vocabulary
How to say “group” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فقد رأينا جماعة يسيرة على نحو ذلك،
Indeed, we saw a small group acting in this way.
جَمَاعَةً — a group. This is the object of 'we saw', in the accusative — 'a group / band'. The accusative marks it as the thing seen. The adjective that follows will describe it.
From: Intention in Islam →فقد ذكر فيه أسماء جماعة ثم لم ينقل عنهم شيئًا من ذلك،
Yet it mentioned the names of a group, then reported nothing of that from them.
جَمَاعَةٍ — of a group. An indefinite noun, 'a group', the owned half of 'names of a group', in the owned-by ending. The pairing sets the two nouns side by side to mean 'names of...', with this as whose names they are.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →يُؤْمَرُ بِفِئَامٍ أَيْ جَمَاعَاتٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ،
A group of people will be ordered on the Day of Resurrection to go to Paradise,
جَمَاعَاتٍ — groups. A plural noun, 'gatherings / crowds', restating the rare earlier word in everyday terms. The plural is carried by its ending, and it sits in apposition as the gloss the 'that is' announced.
From: Turned Away at the Gate →OpenArabic teaches words like جَمَاعَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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