No. 1,049 in Arabic

أعوام

"أعوام" means "years" (plural).

In a sentence

عشتُ في هذه المدينة خمسة أعوام.
I lived in this city for five years.
The word 'أعوام' is used to denote years as a plural form (more formal and poetic than 'سنين').
أصبحت التكنولوجيا متقدمة جدًا خلال الأعوام الأخيرة.
Technology has become very advanced over the recent years.
Here, 'الأعوام' refers to a specific time frame in recent history.
درس جدي في الجامعة لمدة عشرة أعوام.
My grandfather studied at the university for ten years.
In this sentence, 'أعوام' is employed to indicate a span of years in a formal context.

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