الزميل يعرف بنفسه.

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Breakdown of الزميل يعرف بنفسه.

• يعرف بنفسه: to introduce oneself

Questions & Answers about الزميل يعرف بنفسه.

How is this sentence pronounced?

With the intended reading, it is:

az-zamīlu yuʿarrifu binafsihi

A fully vocalized version would be:

الزميلُ يعرّفُ بنفسِهِ

A few pronunciation notes:

• الزميل is pronounced az-zamīl, not al-zamīl, because ز is a sun letter.
• يعرّف has a doubled r sound because of the hidden shadda.
• بنفسه is bi-nafsihi.

Why is يعرف read as yuʿarrifu here, not yaʿrifu?

Because normal Arabic writing usually leaves out short vowels and often other diacritics too, so يعرف can represent more than one reading.

Here are the two relevant possibilities:

• يَعرِفُ = yaʿrifu = he knows
• يُعَرِّفُ = yuʿarrifu = he introduces / identifies

In this sentence, the phrase بنفسه strongly points to the second reading: يعرّف بنفسه, which is the normal expression for introducing oneself.

So the written form is the same, but the intended meaning tells you how to read it.

What does بنفسه break down into?