Arabic vocabulary
How to say “person” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ أَحْمَقَ لِكَيْ يَنْتَفِعَ بِالْعَيْشِ
He created the person foolish so that he might benefit from life.
الْإِنسَانَ — the person. This noun is the direct object of 'created', so it sits in the accusative as the thing acted upon; its al- makes it definite, here standing for humankind generally. It is the entity created. Its accusative is the mark of its object role.
From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →OpenArabic teaches words like إِنْسَانًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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