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أُؤْسَرَ be taken captive in Arabic

أُؤْسَرَ is how you say “be taken captive” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَلَكِنَّنِي أَخْشَى أَنْ أُؤْسَرَ فَقَالَ أَنَّكَ لَنْ تُؤْسَرَ

But I fear that I will be taken captive. He said, "You will not be taken captive."

أُؤْسَرَ I be taken captive

This verb is in the passive: the speaker would be the one captured, not the captor, the action landing on him. Arabic builds the passive by reshaping the vowels inside the verb rather than adding a helper like 'be'. It also sits in the 'aim' shape because of the particle before it, marking it as the feared possibility.

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