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كَبِدِي my side in Arabic

كَبِدِي is how you say “my side” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

إِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَعْتَمِدُ بِكَبِدِي عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْجُوعِ،

If I were to lean my side on the ground because of hunger,

بِكَبِدِي with my side

This noun comes attached to a preposition 'with/by' at its front and the possessive 'my' at its end, so a single Arabic word does the work of an English three-word phrase. The preposition marks the body part as the instrument pressed against the ground. Watch how Arabic stacks prefix-noun-suffix into one unit where English needs separate words.

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More example sentences

أَمْرَضُوا كَبِدِي وَانْحَلُّوا جِسْمِي

They made my liver sick and they wasted away my body.

كَبِدِي my liver

A noun 'liver', taken as the seat of feeling, carrying a first-person 'my' fused on as possessor, 'my liver', and standing as the object of the causing-verb. The attached pronoun marks ownership in one word. It is the part they are said to have sickened.

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