Arabic vocabulary
هِیَ is how you say “it is” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
هِیَ الَّتِي تَحْوِي مَرْضَاةَ الرَّبِّ وَمَحَبَّتَهُ
It is that which contains the Lord's pleasure and His love.
هِیَ — it is. A standalone 'she/it' pronoun used here to start the sentence as its topic, a feminine 'it' pointing to a feminine idea from context. It will be linked to a predicate clause with no 'is' word. It sets up 'it is the one which...'.
From: Trust and Piety →OpenArabic teaches words like هِیَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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