لِيَّ I have in Arabic
لِيَّ is how you say “I have” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قَالَ إِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ، وَلِيَّ حَاجَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ
He said, "I am in need, and I have dependents, and I have an urgent need."
وَلِيَّ and I have
The connector 'wa-' adds yet another parallel clause; this time a preposition 'for/to' fused to a 'me' pronoun builds a second 'I have'. Arabic uses 'to me is...' as another way to say possession, and this opens 'and I have a need'.
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فَسَأَلْنَهَا فَقَالَتْ مَا قَالَ لِيَّ شَيْئًا،
So we asked her, and she said, 'He did not say anything to me.'
لِيَّ to me
Preposition li- ('to') fused with the 'me' ending, marking the speaker as the one the saying was aimed at; the doubled tail is a heavier spelling of the same 'to me'. The preposition governs the attached pronoun, fixing the first person as addressee.
فَقَالَ لِأُمْيَّةَ اِنْظُرْ لِيَّ سَاعَةَ خَلْوَةِ لَعَلَّيَ أَنْ أَطُوفَ بِالْبَيْتِ
He said to Umayya, "Find for me a time of seclusion; perhaps I may circumambulate the House."
لِي for me
A 'for' particle with attached -i 'me', pulled into the 'of' (genitive) shape; it marks the request as being *for my benefit*. So it tells whose advantage the looking-out is meant to serve.