شَدِيدstrong

Example sentences

• ليس الشديد بالصرعة، إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب

  "The strong is not the one who overcomes others, but the strong is one who controls himself at the time of anger."

  ٱلشَّدِيدُ — the strong. The subject of the 'is not' verb, 'the strong one', its 'the' marking a known type. The denial is about this figure: the strong is not what you think.

  From: Restraining Anger →

• ليس الشديد بالصرعة، إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب

  "The strong is not the one who overcomes others, but the strong is one who controls himself at the time of anger."

  ٱلشَّدِيدُ — the strong. The subject of the corrected statement, 'the strong one' again, its 'the' marking the known type. Here it is set up to be defined truly by the clause that follows.

  From: Restraining Anger →