حُلْوٌsweetness

Example sentences

• وحلوه بحامضه،

  And its sweetness with its sourness.

  حُلْوُهُ — its sweetness. This noun, 'its sweetness', carries the attached -hu 'its' at its end, fusing the thing and its owner into one word. The -hu reaches back to the food, and the noun is the item to be balanced by what follows.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• وإدمان الحلو يرخي الشهوة ويحمي البدن،

  Continuous consumption of sweets weakens appetite and heats the body.

  الحُلْوِ — sweets. The al- marks this definite, 'the sweet', and it sits in the possessed ending because the action-noun before it owns it: 'indulging in the sweet'. The two nouns sit side by side, the second taking this owned-half shape.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →