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شَدِيدًا intense in Arabic

شَدِيدًا is how you say “intense” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَوَجَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَجَدًّا شَدِيدًا،

I felt an intense yearning for him,

شَدِيدًا intense

An adjective describing the yearning just before it, matching that noun on both counts: indefinite and carrying the same -an object ending. Arabic adjectives follow their noun and echo its definiteness and case, which is how you know this word intensifies the yearning and not something else. The shared ending is the link.

From Mothers and the Companions

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More example sentences

فَفَزِعَ لِذَلِكَ أُمَيَّةُ فَزَعًا شَدِيدًا،

So Umayyah was seized with intense alarm at that.

شَدِيدًا intense

An object-shaped (accusative) adjective agreeing with the fright-noun before it; both share the same case so the listener knows they belong together. It piles intensity onto the alarm: a *severe* one.

From Warning Before the Battle of Badr

لَقَدْ كَانَ حِرْصُهُ عَلَى أَوْقَاتِ عُمْرِهِ شَدِيدًا،

He was extremely careful about the hours of his life,

شَدِيدًا intense

An adjective serving as the complement of kana: his care 'was intense'. Its object-case ending is what marks it as the thing kana predicates of the subject. English often turns such a predicate adjective into an adverb ('extremely careful').

From A Life of Reading and Writing

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