Arabic vocabulary
الْمُسْتَقِيمِ is how you say “straight” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
الَّتِي تَعُوقُهُ عَنْ سَيْرِهِ عَلَى هَذَا الصِّرَاطِ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ،
which prevents him from walking on this straight path,
الْمُسْتَقِيمِ — straight. An adjective ('straight') describing the path, completing 'this straight path'. It agrees with its noun in being definite and in the genitive, which is what binds the description to that noun. Arabic places the adjective after the noun it modifies.
From: The Bridge to Paradise →OpenArabic teaches words like الْمُسْتَقِيمِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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