Arabic vocabulary
اِعْتَقَدَ is how you say “believed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَإِنْكَشَفَتْ لَهُمْ حَقِيقَةُ مَا اِعْتَقَدُوهُ،
And the reality of what they had believed was revealed to them.
اِعْتَقَدُوهُ — they had believed it. A past-tense verb, 'they had believed', with the -u 'they' ending and the object -hu ('it') fused on. It fills out the relative clause, the thing 'they believed', that the reality belongs to. Subject, verb and object are packed into the single word.
From: Ignoring God's Guidance →OpenArabic teaches words like اِعْتَقَدَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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