Arabic vocabulary
نَفْسِكَ is how you say “yourself” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
هَل عرفت قيمَة نَفسك
Have you known the value of yourself?
نَفْسِكَ — your self. 'Self' with '-ka' (your) attached, the owner completing 'the worth of yourself', genitive. Your own value, which you are asked whether you grasp.
From: Remembering and Loving God →لَو عرفت قدر نَفسك عندنَا مَا أهنتها بِالْمَعَاصِي
If you knew your worth with Us, you would not have degraded it with sins.
نَفْسِكَ — your self. 'Self' with '-ka' (your) attached, the owner completing 'the worth of yourself', genitive. Your own value.
From: Remembering and Loving God →اِتَّقِ اللَّهَ فِي نَفْسِكَ الْمِسْكِينَةِ،
Fear Allah for your wretched self.
نَفْسِكَ — your self. This noun ends in the attached '-ka' (your), a second-person possessor glued to its tail, and it sits in the 'of...' (genitive) shape after the preposition 'fi'. The '-ka' makes the address personal, pointing the warning straight at the listener's own soul.
From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →قَالَ فَارِمْ بِنَفْسِكَ مِنْ هَذَا الْجَبَلِ
He said, 'Then throw yourself from this mountain.'
بِنَفْسِكَ — with your self. The preposition bi- ('with/by means of') fused onto the reflexive noun 'self', with a 'your' suffix on the end. Together they form 'throw yourself' as a single bundle: the preposition governs the noun in the genitive, and the suffix ties the self back to the person commanded.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →OpenArabic teaches words like نَفْسِكَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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