أَنْفُسًاselves

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ أَنْفُسًا

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

  أَنْفُسًا — selves. This is the counted noun specifying what the number refers to, and after a number in this range Arabic puts it in the object-style (accusative) ending. Its plural shape here names the persons tallied, completing the count as the thing measured by the preceding numeral.

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