تَعْجَبَنَّlet be amazed

Example sentences

• لَا تَعْجَبَنَّكُمَا زِينَتُهُ وَلَا مَا مُتِّعَ بِهِ،

  Do not let its adornment, nor what you have been given of it, amaze you two.

  تعجبنَّكما — let be amazed you two. This verb carries a heavy emphatic ending (a doubled n) that strengthens the prohibition into a firm 'never let', and tacked onto it is a dual object pronoun meaning 'you two'. So one word holds the verb, the emphasis, and the pair being addressed. The dual is Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form, with no separate number word.

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