بِئْر well in Arabic
بِئْر is how you say “well” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وسكوت هذا الواقع في البئر محظور عليه،
And the silence of this man in the well is prohibited for him,
البِئْرِ in the well
This noun is the place he is in, held in the governed form by 'in'. The 'the' makes it the definite, specific well.
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حَتَّى دَخَلَ بِئْرَ أَرِيسِ، فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ،
Until he entered the well of Aris, and I sat by the door.
بِئْرَ well
The first noun of an 'of' pair, 'well', the thing entered; it gives up any 'the' and takes definiteness from the owner-name to follow. The two nouns abut with no word for 'of'.
وَدَلَّى رِجْلَيْهِ فِي الْبِئْرِ،
And he lowered his two legs into the well,
الْبِئْرِ the well
The al- here makes the noun definite, 'the' rather than 'a', and its oblique ending is forced on it by the preposition sitting just before. Definiteness frames it as a specific, already-known thing, while that case-vowel is Arabic's way of showing the preposition governs it - a job English does purely by position.