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أَنْفُسًا selves in Arabic

أَنْفُسًا is how you say “selves” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

From The Joy of Repentance

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