Arabic vocabulary
تَحْرِصُ is how you say “be eager to” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَأَنْتَ تَحْرِصُ عَلَى جَمْعِ الزِّيَادَةِ
And you are eager to gather more.
تَحْرِصُ — you are eager to. A present-tense verb, 'you are eager/keen', addressed to 'you', with the subject built into its ending. It reaches its object through the preposition that follows, so the eagerness is directed 'toward gathering'. Its full ending marks a plain ongoing statement.
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