إِلَيَّto me

Example sentences

• قَالَ يَا مَالِكِ مَا جَاءَ بِكَ إِلَيَّ؟

  He said, O Malik, what brought you to me?

  إِلَيَّ — to me. A 'to/toward' preposition with '-ya' (me) fused on, so one word means 'to me', marking the speaker as the destination. It fixes where the listener was brought, with the suffix carrying the 'me' English would state separately.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• وَكَانَ يَبْعَثُ إِلَيَّ بِحَلْبَةِ الْغَدَاةِ،

  And he used to send me fenugreek in the morning.

  إِلَيَّ — to me. A preposition ila ('to') with a first-person 'me' attached, the doubled ending you hear being the pronoun fused to the preposition. It marks the speaker as the recipient of the sending, the destination of what is sent. So this one word answers 'to whom' for the verb before it.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• أَحْبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ حُمُرِ النِعَمِ

  She is dearer to me than the red camels.

  إِلَيَّ — to me. This preposition means 'to / toward' and carries the 'me' pronoun, so it reads 'to me', here marking whose preference is being expressed. It pairs with the 'dearer' adjective to say 'dearer to me'. Arabic glues the pronoun straight onto the relating word.

  From: Honoring Parents →

• وَقَالَ الآخَرُ اللَّهُمَّ كَانَتْ لِيَّ بِنْتُ عَمٍّ كَانَتْ أَحْبَّ النَّاسِ إِلَيَّ،

  And the other said, "O Allah, I had a paternal cousin; she was the dearest of people to me."

  إِلَيَّ — to me. A preposition fused with a first-person 'me' pronoun, 'to me'. It anchors the comparison to the speaker, marking him as the one in whose eyes she was dearest, so the superlative is judged from his standpoint.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• وَلَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ أَبْغَضَ إِلَيَّ مِنْهُ

  And there was not anything more hated to me than it.

  إِلَيَّ — to me. This is the preposition 'to/toward' with an attached 'me', marking the speaker as the one to whom the thing was hateful. The attached pronoun is in the genitive form a preposition takes, so it means 'to me' in the sense of in my feeling.

  From: Marriage and Financial Justice →