Arabic vocabulary
يَقْصُرَbe negligent in Arabic
يَقْصُرَ is how you say “be negligent” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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