قَابِلَةِthe following

Example sentences

• فَمَنَعَهُمْ مِنَ الاِسْتِصْبَاحِ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الْقَابِلَةِ، فَعَمَدَ الْفَضْلُ إِلَى الْقُمْقُمِْ مَمْلُوءٍ،

  So he prevented them from having a light on the following night, and so al-Fadl reached toward the flask full of water.

  الْقَابِلَةِ — the following. This is a describing adjective tied to 'the night', and it copies that noun's al- definiteness and genitive ending, plus a feminine shape to agree. Arabic makes an adjective match its noun across case, gender, definiteness and number. That four-way matching is how you know it modifies 'the night'.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →