No. 4,719 in Arabic
الاحد
"الاحد" means "Sunday" in English.
In a sentence
ذهبَ أحمد إلى المدرسة يوم الأحد.
Ahmed went to school on Sunday.
In this sentence, 'الأحد' (Sunday) is used to indicate the name of a specific day of the week.
في ذلك الوقت لم يكن في العالم إلا أحد.
At that time, there was no one in the world but one person.
Here, 'أحد' (one person) is used within a negative construction to denote exclusivity.
تحدثت مع أحد الأصدقاء أمس.
I spoke with one of the friends yesterday.
In this case, 'أحد' (one) notes an indefinite individual, demonstrating its usage as an indefinite pronoun.
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