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تَمَكَّنُ become able in Arabic

تَمَكَّنُ is how you say “become able” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَلَا يَتَمَكَّنُ مِنْ خُرُوجِ إِلَى حَمَّامٍ وَلَا غَيْرِهِ،

and he was unable to go out to the bathhouse or anywhere else,

يَتَمَكَّنُ he is able

A present-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject, here under the negation just before it. In this narrative the negated present describes an ongoing inability across that period: he kept being unable. The verb is the one the preceding 'not' is cancelling.

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