Arabic vocabulary
يَقْصُرَbe negligent
How to say “be negligent” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
يَنْبَغِيَ أَلَّا يَقْصُرَ الإِنسَانُ فِي رِعَايَةِ حَقِّهِ
One should not be negligent in safeguarding his right.
يَقْصُرَ — be negligent. A present-tense verb pushed into its subjunctive shape — note the plain -a ending — by the 'that...not' particle just before it. That mood marks the falling-short as the thing being warned against, an aim viewed rather than a fact reported. Arabic signals this by changing the verb's final vowel, not by adding a helper word.
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