Arabic vocabulary
How to say “story” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فَقص عَلَيْهِ الْقِصَّة
So he told him the story.
الْقِصَّةَ — the story. 'al-' = 'the'; object — the '-a' accusative ending marks it.
From: Luqman's Response to Injustice →قصة الجصاص مع ابن الفرات
The Story of Al-Jassas with Ibn Al-Furat
قِصَّةُ — story. A noun, 'story / account', that heads an 'of' pairing, 'the story of al-Jassas'. The two nouns sit directly together with no word for 'of', and this first one stays without 'the' because its definiteness comes from the owner after it.
From: The Reward of Giving →OpenArabic teaches words like قِصَّةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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