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شَدِيدَةٌ urgent in Arabic

شَدِيدَةٌ is how you say “urgent” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

قَالَ إِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ، وَلِيَّ حَاجَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ

He said, "I am in need, and I have dependents, and I have an urgent need."

شَدِيدَةٌ urgent

A feminine adjective describing 'need', and it copies that noun's indefinite, case, and feminine markings to agree with it. Arabic makes the describing word echo its noun's gender and definiteness, so the matching shape is the link between 'urgent' and 'need'.

From The Verse of the Throne

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More example sentences

حَتَّى أَصَابَتْنَا مَخْمَصَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ،

Until severe hunger struck us,

شَدِيدَةٌ severe

This is a describing word attached to the noun before it, and it matches that noun in being feminine and indefinite, its -un ending echoing the noun's. Arabic makes an adjective agree with its noun in such features, which is how a reader knows which noun it describes.

From The Martyr's Reward

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