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طَوِيلًا long (duration) in Arabic

طَوِيلًا is how you say “long (duration)” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَبَكَى طَوِيلًا،

Then he wept for a long time.

طويلًا for a long time

This is a descriptive word pressed into service as an adverb of extent: it takes the special indefinite accusative ending (heard as '-an') that Arabic uses to turn an adjective into 'in a ... manner / for a ... while'. That ending is exactly how the language answers 'how long / how much' without any extra preposition.

From A Night of Reckoning

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