لَيْلَةnight

Example sentences

• اللَّيْلَةَ اِذْهَبْ إِلَى أَهْلِكَ،

  Tonight, go to your family,

  اللَّيْلَةَ — tonight. A time-word in the object (accusative) shape, which is how Arabic turns a noun into an adverb of time without any preposition: the -a ending alone says 'during/at this night'. So it answers 'when' for the command that follows, pinning the action to tonight. The case ending does the work a separate 'on/at' would do in English.

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