طَوِيلَةlong in Arabic

Example sentences

• ثم قال لئن أنا حييت حتى آكل تمراتي هذه إنها لحياة طويلة

  Then he said: 'If I live until I eat my dates, it will indeed be a long life!'

  طَوِيلَةٌ — long. An adjective describing 'life', and it matches its noun in being feminine, indefinite, and in the same nominative ending. Arabic adjectives trail their noun and copy its gender, number, and definiteness, so the agreement endings here tie 'long' firmly to 'life'.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →