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أَمْس
yesterday /ˈʔams/
nounA1#425 most common
Also: the day before today, the recent past (figurative)
Example sentences
ذَهَبْتُ إِلَى المَدْرَسَةِ أَمْسِ.
I went to school yesterday.
رَأَيْتُ صَدِيقِي أَمْسِ فِي السُّوقِ.
I saw my friend yesterday at the market.
كَانَ الطَّقْسُ بَارِداً جِدّاً أَمْسِ.
The weather was very cold yesterday.
لَمْ أَتَمَكَّنْ مِنْ إِنْهَاءِ العَمَلِ الَّذِي بَدَأْتُهُ أَمْسِ.
I could not finish the work I started yesterday.
مَا زِلْتُ أُفَكِّرُ فِي الكَلِمَاتِ الَّتِي قَالَهَا لِي أَمْسِ.
I am still thinking about the words he said to me yesterday.
لَوْ أَنَّنِي أَنْهَيْتُ المَشْرُوعَ أَمْسِ، لَمَا اضْطُرِرْتُ إِلَى السَّهَرِ اللَّيْلَةَ.
Had I finished the project yesterday, I would not have had to stay up tonight.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَمْسِ | None |
| Genitive | أَمْسِ | None |
| Accusative | أَمْسِ | None |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
بِالأَمْسِyesterday (in the phrase 'on the day before')
أَمْسِيَّةevening, soirée
أَمْسَىto become, to reach the evening
مَسَاءevening
Etymology
أَمْس descends from a common Semitic word for the previous day or the evening just past. The same stock gives Hebrew emesh, last night, and Akkadian amšali, yesterday. The shared sense across these languages points to an old link between yesterday and the evening gone by. In Arabic it is a primitive noun, not built from a verb.
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