Arabic vocabulary
الْحَيَاةِ is how you say “the life” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
ذَلِكَ مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهَلْ الْمَتَاعُ إِلَّا عَارِيَةٌ تُعَارُ،
That is the provision of worldly life; and is the provision anything but a loan that is lent?
الْحَيَاةِ — the life. Carries al- ('the') and is the owner inside 'provision of the life', so it takes the genitive ending, and it itself heads a further link with the next word ('the life of the world'). So it is owned by 'provision' and owner of 'worldly' at once, a middle link in a longer chain.
From: This World Is Short →OpenArabic teaches words like الْحَيَاةِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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