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كَثِيرَةً many in Arabic

كَثِيرَةً is how you say “many” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَقَدْ تَحَمَّلَتْ الْأُمُّ بِحِمْلِهِ أَثْقَالًا كَثِيرَةً،

Indeed, the mother bore many heavy burdens in carrying him.

كَثِيرَةً many

This is a describing adjective tied to 'burdens', and it copies that noun's traits: the same indefinite tanwin, the same object-case -a ending, and a feminine-style shape to agree with the plural. Arabic makes adjectives match their noun in case, definiteness, gender and number, and that matching binds this word to 'burdens'. So the agreement, not just nearness, tells you what 'many' describes.

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More example sentences

فَلَمَّا أَمْسَى النَّاسُ الْيَوْمَ الَّذِي فُتِحَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَوْقَدُوا نِيرَانًا كَثِيرَةً

When evening fell on the day that had been opened to them, the people kindled many fires.

كَثِيرَةً many

A describing word attached to the noun before it, matching it in being indefinite and in the object role: its -an ending echoes the noun's. The agreement is how a reader knows it qualifies 'fires' and not some other word.

From The Martyr's Reward

وَمِنْ جُمْلَةِ مَا قَرَأَ أَجْزَاءً كَثِيرَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ الْفُنُونِ لِابْنِ عَقِيلِ،

Among the things he read were many sections of Ibn Aqil's Book of Arts.

كَثِيرَةً many

An adjective modifying the sections. It agrees with them by taking the same indefinite object ending, so its shape is what marks it as attached to that noun rather than to anything else. It quantifies how many sections were read.

From A Life of Reading and Writing

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