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شَعْرِيَ that I knew in Arabic

شَعْرِيَ is how you say “that I knew” in Arabic.

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لَيْتَ شَعْرِيَ وَقَدْ تَمَادَى بِكَ الْهَجْرُ أَمْ مِنْكَ التَّفْرِيطُ أَمْ كَانَ مِنِّي،

I wish I knew: now that estrangement toward you has gone so far, was the negligence yours, or was it mine?

شَعْرِيَ that I knew

A noun with an attached 'my' on its end forming a set idiom that, with the wishing particle before it, yields 'would that I knew'. The attached possessor is the first person. The phrase is conventional, its parts read as a single wish.

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