ٱسْتَغْفَرَ ask for forgiveness in Arabic
ٱسْتَغْفَرَ is how you say “ask for forgiveness” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ لَوْ بَلَغَتْ ذُنُوبُك عَنَانَ السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ اسْتَغْفَرْتنِي غَفَرْتُ لَك،
O son of Adam! If your sins were to reach the clouds of the sky and then you were to ask for My forgiveness, I would forgive you.
ٱسْتَغْفَرْتَنِي you were to ask for My forgiveness
The shape with 'ista-' at the front means to seek or ask for something — here to seek forgiveness. It carries 'you' (-ta) as the seeker and 'Me' (-ni) as the one asked; the past form continues the hypothetical begun by 'even if'.
The English is machine-translated.

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