Arabic vocabulary
وَاِخْتَلَفُوا is how you say “and they differed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَاِخْتَلَفُوا فِي الْعَقَائِدِ وَالْأَفْعَالِ اِخْتِلَافًا
And they differed greatly in beliefs and in actions.
وَاِخْتَلَفُوا — and they differed. A sentence-starting wa- 'and' fused to a past verb in a derived 'differ-among-themselves' pattern shaped for 'they'. The wa- joins the clause on; the plural 'they' lives in the verb's ending. It states a further action of the group.
From: Finding the Prophet's Way →OpenArabic teaches words like وَاِخْتَلَفُوا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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