سَنَةٌyears

Example sentences

• لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،

  A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.

  سَنَةٍ — years. sana means 'year'; the '-in' ending marks the singular noun counted after 'thousand' (Arabic uses the singular here).

  From: Adam's Descent →

• فَٱمْتَنَعَتْ مِّنِّي حَتَّى أَلَمَّتْ بِهَا سَنَةٌ مِنَ السِّنِينَ،

  So she refused from me until a year of hardship befell her.

  سَنَةٌ — a year. A feminine indefinite noun standing as the subject of the 'befell' verb; its feminine shape is why that verb took a feminine ending. With no 'the', it presents the year as one unspecified hard season newly entering the story.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →