Arabic vocabulary
How to say “ninety” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
كان فيمن كان قبلكم رجل قتل تسعة وتسعين نفساً،
There was among those before you a man who killed ninety-nine people.
تِسْعَةً — ninety. This is one half of the compound number 'ninety-nine' — the 'nine' element. In Arabic such tens-and-units numbers are built by joining the two with 'and', and they sit in the accusative as the counted amount. It pairs with the 'ninety' coming next.
From: Righteous Company →فأتاه فقال إنه قتل تسعه وتسعين نفساً، فهل له من توبة؟
So he came to him and said, 'He has killed ninety-nine people, is there repentance for him?'
تِسْعَةً — ninety. The 'nine' element of the compound 'ninety-nine', in the accusative as the counted amount. It joins with the 'ninety' next via 'and'. Arabic builds these numbers as 'nine and ninety'.
From: Righteous Company →OpenArabic teaches words like تِسْعَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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