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هٰكَذا
thus; like this /ˈhaːkaðaː/
adverbA1#210 most common
Also: this way, so, in this manner
Example sentences
اِفْعَلْ هٰكَذا.
Do it like this.
لِماذا تَتَكَلَّمُ هٰكَذا؟
Why do you speak like this?
هٰكَذا تَعَلَّمْتُ اللُّغَةَ العَرَبِيَّةَ.
This is how I learned Arabic.
إِذا اِسْتَمَرَّ الوَضْعُ هٰكَذا، سَنَخْسَرُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ.
If the situation continues like this, we will lose everything.
هٰكَذا تَكَلَّمَ الفَيْلَسوفُ، وَلَمْ يَفْهَمْهُ أَحَدٌ.
Thus spoke the philosopher, and no one understood him.
وَهٰكَذا، بَعْدَ سِنينَ مِنَ النِّضالِ، اِنْتَهَتِ الحِكايَةُ كَما بَدَأَتْ، بِلا نَتيجَةٍ تُذْكَرُ.
And so, after years of struggle, the tale ended as it began, with no result worth mentioning.
Word family
Etymology
Arabic هٰكَذا is built from three deictic pieces: the presentative هـٰ (hā, 'here is, lo'), the comparative كَـ (ka, 'like'), and the demonstrative ذا (dhā, 'this'). Together they mean 'like this here,' which narrowed to 'thus' or 'in this way.' The demonstrative ذا comes from the Semitic root *ḏā, which also sits inside Hebrew זֶה and Aramaic דָּא.
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