Arabic vocabulary
جَالِسَتَانِtwo were sitting
How to say “two were sitting” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَتْ بَيْنَمَا أَنَا مَعَ عَائِشَةِ جَالِسَتَانِ،
She said, "While I was sitting with Aisha,"
جَالِسَتَانِ — two were sitting. This is the dual form, Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' shape, describing the two women as 'both sitting'. It works as the predicate of the scene and takes the dual nominative ending, folding 'the two of us' into the word itself rather than a separate 'two'.
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