Arabic vocabulary
بَدَلَinstead
How to say “instead” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فقال الوالي إذاً خذ الناقة واعطه حمارك بدل الدراهم
The governor said: Then take the camel and give him your donkey instead of the dirhams.
بَدَلَ — instead of. This is a noun 'substitute for, in place of' used as a connector before another noun. It heads a possessive pairing, 'in place of the dirhams', and its accusative ending lets it work as this adverbial 'instead of'. It sets up the swap relationship.
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