Arabic vocabulary
How to say “apologizing” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَقَامَ الْقَوْمُ مُعْتَذِرِينَ وَقَالُوا
So the people stood up, apologizing, and said.
مُعْتَذِرِينَ — apologizing. A 'doer' word (active participle) in its plural object-style ending, used as a state-tag on the rising: it tells how they stood, namely apologizing. It rides as a circumstance of the main verb rather than as a noun.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like مُعْتَذِرِينَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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