كَادَ almost in Arabic
كَادَ is how you say “almost” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
لا يَكَادُ الْمُتَقَدُّ الْخَاطِرُ يَحِلُّهَا عِدَّةً،
The eager mind can hardly separate it into distinct units.
يَكَادُ is almost
A verb of approximation meaning 'is on the point of'. With the preceding negation it forms 'can hardly', expressing that the action barely happens. It expects a following verb naming what is scarcely achieved, building the 'hardly manages to' construction.
The English is machine-translated.

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