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أَصْعَب
more difficult / most difficult /ˈʔasˤ.ʕab/
nounB1#2368 most common
Also: harder, toughest
Example sentences
هذا السؤال أصعب من ذلك السؤال.
This question is harder than that question.
الرياضيات أصعب من اللغة الإنجليزية بالنسبة لي.
Math is harder than English for me.
هذا أصعب امتحان قدمته هذا العام.
This is the hardest exam I have taken this year.
يُعتبر جبل إيفرست من أصعب القمم في العالم تسلقًا.
Mount Everest is considered one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb.
كانت تلك المرحلة أصعب ما واجهته الشركة منذ تأسيسها.
That phase was the hardest thing the company faced since it was founded.
لم يكن القرار صعبًا فحسب، بل كان الأصعب في مسيرته السياسية كلها.
The decision was not just hard; it was the hardest one in his whole political career.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أصعبُ | أصعبون |
| Genitive | أصعبَ | أصعبين |
| Accusative | أصعبَ | أصعبين |
| Vocative | أصعبُ | أصعبون |
Word family
صعبdifficult, hard
صعوبةdifficulty
استصعبto find something difficult
صُعبىmore/most difficult (feminine form)
تصعيبthe act of making something harder
Etymology
أصعب is the elative form of the adjective صعب, meaning 'difficult' or 'hard'. Arabic builds this comparative/superlative shape by adding the prefix أ- to a triliteral root, following the pattern أفعل. The root ص-ع-ب itself carries the sense of hardship or steepness going back to Classical Arabic usage.
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