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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.

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