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يَكَادُ almost in Arabic

يَكَادُ is how you say “almost” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَلَا سَيِّمَا مِمَّنْ لَا يَكَادُ يَعْرِفُ كَلَامَ الْعَرَبِ جَيِّدًا،

And especially those who hardly know Arabic well,

يَكَادُ he almost

A near-verb meaning 'almost / is on the verge of', present tense with a 'he' subject in the form. With the preceding 'la' the idiom flips to 'hardly does', and it governs another present verb after it to say what the person can scarcely do.

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