Arabic vocabulary
لَيْتَنِيI wish I in Arabic
لَيْتَنِي is how you say “I wish I” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
لَيْتَنِي فِيهَا جَذْعًا،
I wish I were a stump in it,
لَيْتَنِي — I wish I were. A wishing particle for the impossible-or-unlikely, 'if only', with -ni ('me') fused onto its end as its subject. Unusually for a particle it acts like a verb here: it grabs the speaker as its subject and the noun after it as a predicate, framing the whole as a sigh of longing.
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