أَمَرَّيْنِthe two matters

Example sentences

• وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا صَبْرَ لَهُ عَلَى وَاحِدٍ مِنَ الأَمَرَّيْنِ

  Most of them have no patience for either of the two matters.

  الأَمَرَّيْنِ — the two matters. This is the dual, Arabic's 'exactly two' form, which English must render with 'two'. The count is folded into the noun's ending rather than carried by a separate number word. It refers back to the two bitter matters set up earlier, and stands in the genitive as object of min.

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