Arabic vocabulary
أَكْثَر is how you say “more” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ لَهُ رجل إِنِّي أَكثر الْبكاء
A man said to him, 'I cry often.'
أُكْثِرُ — I do much of. A Form IV verb, 'I do much of', the a-prefix giving 'make plentiful'. The subject 'I' is inside it, and it reaches for an object naming what is done abundantly.
From: Contentment with What God Wills →فيُصلَّى بها أكثرُ من جنازةٍ بتيممٍ واحدٍ على الأصح
More than one funeral prayer may be performed with a single dry ablution according to the more correct opinion.
أَكْثَرُ — more than. An elative, 'more,' the subject of the passive 'may be prayed' — 'more [than one]... may be prayed.' It takes 'than' (next) for what it exceeds: a single funeral.
From: Purification Without Water →وَإِنْ كَانُوا الْأَكْثَرِينَ عَدَدًا،
Even if they are the majority in number,
الْأَكْثَرِينَ — the most numerous. An elative ('the most numerous'), serving as the predicate of the 'to be' verb before it, which is why it takes the object-style ending that this verb gives its predicate. As an -in plural it agrees with the 'they' inside the verb. A clarifying word follows to fix the respect in which they are 'most'.
From: Choosing Good Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like أَكْثَر through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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