Arabic vocabulary
بُنَيِّهِ is how you say “his little son” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
قَالَ فَدَعَا أَصْغَرَ بُنَيِّهِ
He said, then he called his youngest son.
بُنَيِّهِ — his little son. A noun in the affectionate 'little' shape with -hi fixing 'his' to it; as the tail of the 'of' pairing it sits in the genitive. The 'his' points back to the father, marking the boy as his.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →قَامَ إِلَى أَصْغَرِ بُنَيِّهِ فَلَطَمَنِي
He went up to the youngest of his sons and struck me.
بُنَيِّهِ — of his sons. A noun in the affectionate 'little' shape with -hi fixing 'his', completing the 'of' pairing and so sitting in the genitive. The 'his' points back to the father, marking the boy as his.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like بُنَيِّهِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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