Arabic vocabulary
أَخِيَ is how you say “my brother” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ فَجَلَسْتُ وَقَدْ تَرَكْتُ أَخِيَ يَتَوَضَّأُ وَيَلْحَقُنِي،
Then I returned and sat down, having left my brother performing ablution and about to catch up with me.
أَخِيَ — my brother. A noun fused with 'my', 'my brother', here the one left behind - its ending marks it as the thing acted upon. The attached 'my' names the relationship.
From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →OpenArabic teaches words like أَخِيَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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