شَيْخًا man in Arabic
شَيْخًا is how you say “man” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
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Example sentence
وَكَانَ شَيْخًا كَبِيرًا قَدْ عَمِيَ
He was an old man who had become blind.
شَيْخًا a man
This is the completer of kaana ('was'): the noun that fills in what he WAS. Because kaana governs it, the noun takes the -an accusative ending you can hear, even though in English it is just a plain predicate after 'was'. It is left indefinite (no 'the'), which is why English reaches for 'a'.
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