Arabic vocabulary
How to say “matter” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَلَا يَسْمَعُ أَمْرًا يُكَادَانِ بِهِ إِلَّا وَعَاهُ،
So he did not hear of any matter that nearly affected the two of them without being aware of it.
أَمْرًا — any matter. An indefinite noun in the object slot (the doubled '-an' ending is both 'a/any' and the mark of being the thing acted on). Under the negation it reads as 'any matter at all', and it is the head that the following clause then describes.
From: The Secret Migration →OpenArabic teaches words like أَمْرًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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