تِسْعَةًnine

Example sentences

• رَجُلٌ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ نَفْسًا،

  A man killed ninety-nine people.

  تِسْعَةً — nine. This is the units half of a compound number, and it joins with the tens word later to build 'ninety-nine'. Arabic numbers have their own gender and case behavior; here it takes the object-style (accusative) ending as part of the count of what was killed.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →

• فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ أَنْفُسًا

  He said, "Indeed, he killed ninety-nine people."

  تِسْعَةً — nine. This is the units half of the compound number, pairing with the tens that follow to make 'ninety-nine'. It carries the object-style (accusative) ending as part of the tally of those killed, the standard case for a counted object here.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →