Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the rock” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَانْفَرَجَتْ الصَّخْرَةُ فَخَرَجُوا يَمْشُونَ
Then the rock split open, and they came out walking.
الصَّخْرَةُ — the rock. A definite noun with 'the' and a nominative ending marking it as the doer of the parting. Its feminine gender is why the verb before it carried a feminine ending; subject and verb match in gender across the pair.
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