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.
The English is machine-translated.

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