عَشَرَةten

Example sentences

• فضحك الوزير وأعطاه عشرة آلاف درهم أخرى

  The minister laughed and gave him another ten thousand dirhams.

  عَشَرَةَ — ten. The -a ending marks this as the direct object of 'gave', the thing handed over. It also opens an 'of' count chain with the following 'thousands', the two nouns set side by side to mean 'ten of thousands'.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• قال أخبرته أني اشتريت دارًا في الجنة بعشرة آلاف درهم، فأعطاني عشرة آلاف أخرى

  He said: I told him that I bought a house in Paradise for ten thousand dirhams, so he gave me another ten thousand.

  بِعَشْرَةِ — for ten. The bi- here means 'for the price of' and governs the genitive. This noun then heads an 'of' count chain with 'thousands', the two set side by side to give the price.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• قال أخبرته أني اشتريت دارًا في الجنة بعشرة آلاف درهم، فأعطاني عشرة آلاف أخرى

  He said: I told him that I bought a house in Paradise for ten thousand dirhams, so he gave me another ten thousand.

  عَشَرَةَ — ten. The -a ending marks this as the direct object of 'gave', the thing handed over, and it heads an 'of' count chain with the following 'thousands'.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• فالأشياء التي تكدر بها عشرة

  So the things that it is tainted by are ten.

  عَشَرَةٌ — are ten. A number word, 'ten', completing the sentence as the count of the things. It works as the description telling how many, the predicate answering 'how many things'.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →