Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the two banks” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
حَتَّى أَشْرَبَ مَا بَيْنَ الضِّفَّتَيْنِ
Until I drink what is between the two banks.
الضِّفَّتَيْنِ — the two banks. The dual, 'two banks', with 'al-' (the) making it 'the two banks', in the form the preposition 'between' requires. The count of two lives in the word's shape; the article marks them as the known pair. Its case is set by the preposition before it.
From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →OpenArabic teaches words like الضِّفَّتَيْنِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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