نحن الاثنان
“نحن الاثنان” (нахну аль-иснаан) — the two of us (together) in Arabic. Adverb, level A2. You have met nahnu al-ithnaan as "the two of us": there is no separate "the two of us together", and this phrase covers it — "we two went" is exactly "went together". In a live sentence: “ذهبنا نحن الاثنان إلى السوق” — The two of us went to the market. Written with the characters ن, ح, ن, ا, ل, ا, ث, ن, ا, ن.
In short
| Written in Arabic | نحن الاثنان |
| Read in Latin letters | нахну аль-иснаан |
| Translation | the two of us (together) |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
You have met nahnu al-ithnaan as "the two of us": there is no separate "the two of us together", and this phrase covers it — "we two went" is exactly "went together"
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ذهبنا نحن الاثنان إلى السوقзахабна нахну аль-иснаан иля ас-суукThe two of us went to the market
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “the two of us (together)” in Arabic?
«نحن الاثنان», read “нахну аль-иснаан”. In a live sentence: “ذهبنا نحن الاثنان إلى السوق” — The two of us went to the market. Adverb, level A2; written with the characters ن, ح, ن, ا, ل, ا, ث, ن, ا, ن.
How is “نحن الاثنان” written in Latin letters?
нахну аль-иснаан. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
You have met nahnu al-ithnaan as "the two of us": there is no separate "the two of us together", and this phrase covers it — "we two went" is exactly "went together". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.