Arabic vocabulary
How to say “be given” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَقُلْ يُسْمَعْ، وَسَلْ تُعْطَهْ، وَاِشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ
Say, and it will be heard; ask, and you will be given; intercede, and you will be granted intercession.
تُعْطَهْ — you will be given it. A passive verb addressed to 'you', 'you will be given', in the cut-short jussive shape as the promised result of the preceding 'ask'. A trailing sound on it stands in for 'it', the thing given. So the command-then-result pairing reads 'if you ask, you are given it', with the passive showing 'you' as receiver.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →ثُمَّ يُقَالُ اِرْفَعْ مُحَمَّدُ، وَقُلْ يُسْمَعُ، وَسَلْ تُعْطَهْ، وَاشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ،
Then it is said: "Rise, Muhammad; say, it is heard; ask and you will be given; intercede and you will be granted intercession."
تُعْطَهْ — you will be given. This is a passive verb addressed to the listener: 'you' will be the one given, with the giver left unnamed. It pairs with the command before it as its guaranteed outcome, asking is met by being given, and the clipped final shape reflects the conditional, response-to-a-command pattern these promises follow.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →OpenArabic teaches words like تُعْطَهْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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