Arabic vocabulary
رَدِيف is how you say “riding partner” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
كنت رديفا للنَّبِي على حمَار
I was a riding partner of the Prophet on a donkey
رَدِيفًا — a riding partner. This noun is indefinite, with no 'the', and its ending marks it as the complement that describes what the speaker was. After the verb 'to be', Arabic puts this describing word into the accusative case, which is why its ending differs from a plain subject naming.
From: Worship and Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like رَدِيف through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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