حَرْفانِtwo words in Arabic

Example sentences

• إذا ناظرتَهم لم تَلْق منهم سوى حَرْفَيْنِ لِمْ لِمْ لا نُسَلِّمْ

  When you debate them, you find nothing from them but the two words, 'why, why, we do not concede.'

  حَرْفَيْنِ — two words. 'two utterances' — the DUAL (the -ayn genitive ending), 'a mere two phrases'. Arabic folds 'exactly two' into the noun's ending.

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