ثَّالِثَةَthird in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَرَصَدْتُهُ الثَّالِثَةَ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ،

  I watched for him a third time, and he came scooping up food.

  الثَّالِثَةَ — the third time. A definite feminine ordinal with 'the', its accusative ending dropping it in as an adverb, 'the third time'. The ending alone marks it as 'when/how often' the action happened, with no preposition needed.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →