Arabic vocabulary
طَوِيلًاlong (duration)
How to say “long (duration)” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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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