Arabic vocabulary
How to say “useful” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَيَنْبَغِي لِلْعَالَمِ أَنْ يَتَوَفَّرَ عَلَى التَّصَانِيفِ إِنْ وَفَّقَ لِلْتَّصْنِيفِ الْمُفِيدِ
Therefore, it is incumbent upon the scholar to devote himself to written works if he is granted success in producing a useful work.
الْمُفِيدِ — useful. An adjective describing the authoring as 'useful', and it matches its noun in being definite and in the after-preposition case — Arabic makes adjectives copy their noun's definiteness and case. That agreement is how a reader knows which noun it modifies.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →OpenArabic teaches words like مُفِيدٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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