Arabic vocabulary
بِنْتُهُ is how you say “his daughter” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ عَلَى الْبَدِيهَةِ أَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ كَانَتْ بِنْتُهُ تَحْتَهُ،
He said on the spur of the moment: the best of people is the one whose daughter was under him.
بِنْتِهِ — his daughter. A noun, 'daughter', with a 'his' tail pointing back to the unnamed best man — the suffix tracks an owner introduced only by the relative 'the one who'. It is the topic of the inner 'was' clause.
From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →OpenArabic teaches words like بِنْتُهُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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