Arabic vocabulary
عَاجِزِ is how you say “helpless” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَهَذِهِ حَالُ الْعَاجِزِ الضَّعِيفِ
And this is the state of the helpless and the weak.
الْعَاجِزِ — the helpless. This definite noun is the owner in the pairing 'state of the helpless' and stands in the genitive. Arabic links the two nouns by adjacency alone, and this owner noun says whose state it is, with a describing word still to come.
From: Three States of the Heart →OpenArabic teaches words like عَاجِزِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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