Arabic vocabulary
How to say “very” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَهُوَ كِتَابٌ كَبِيرٌ جِدًّا،
It is a very large book.
جدًّا — very. An intensifier ('very') that strengthens the adjective before it. It is a fixed adverb-like word, placed after what it boosts, raising 'large' to 'very large'. Such intensifiers in Arabic keep one unchanging shape.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →OpenArabic teaches words like جِدًّا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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