Arabic vocabulary
ثَوْبِي is how you say “my garment” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَلَفَّتْ الْخُبْزَ بِبَعْضِهِ، ثُمَّ دَسَّتْهُ تَحْتَ ثَوْبِي وَرَدَّتْنِي بِبَعْضِهِ،
She wrapped the bread with some of it, then tucked it under my garment and sent me back with some of it.
ثَوْبِي — my garment. The garment, governed by 'under' and so in the genitive, with the '-ee' (my) suffix attached -- the narrator's own robe. The suffix marks whose garment; the case marks it as governed by the preposition.
From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →OpenArabic teaches words like ثَوْبِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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