السِّنِينَthe years

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  السِّنِينَ — the years. This noun is governed by the partitive 'of', so it sits in the 'of' (genitive) ending; the al- makes it definite, 'the years'. It is the whole that the single year was singled out from, completing the time expression.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →