Arabic vocabulary
أَيٍّ is how you say “interrogative particle” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
الْآيَةُ وَهَذَا إِسْتِفْهَامٌ نَفْيٌ وَإِنْكَارُ أَيٍّ
The verse: this is the interrogative particle expressing negation and repudiation.
أَيٍّ — interrogative particle. The question-word being discussed, named here as a noun and described as carrying a denying force. It is the grammatical item the whole sentence is analyzing, treated as a thing rather than used to ask.
From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →OpenArabic teaches words like أَيٍّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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