بِشُكْرِهِمَاwith thanks to them

Example sentences

• أَنَّهُ مَهْمَا بَالَغَ فِي بِرِّهِمَا لَمْ يَفْ بِشُكْرِهِمَا

  However much he went to great lengths to be dutiful to them, he did not repay them with thanks.

  بِشُكْرِهِمَا — with thanks to them. The bi- here means 'with / by means of', marking what the repaying would have been made with, and it carries the dual 'them two' pronoun, so it reads 'with thanks to them both'. The thanks-noun takes the dual suffix to point at both parents, and the preposition forces the genitive. So it completes 'did not repay them both with thanks'.

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