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الصِّبْيَانُ the boys in Arabic

الصِّبْيَانُ is how you say “the boys” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

كَمَا يَتَلاَعَبُ الصِّبْيَانُ بِالْكُرَةِ

Just as the boys play with the ball.

الصّبيان the boys

A broken plural for 'boys', formed by reshaping the singular's internal pattern rather than adding an ending, and made definite by 'al-'. It is the subject of the playing-verb that came before it. Arabic builds many plurals this way, by recasting the word's shape.

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