Arabic vocabulary
اِصْطَفَى is how you say “chose” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
أَنْتَ مُوسَى الَّذِي اِصْطَفَاكَ اللَّهُ بِرِسَالَاتِهِ وَبِكَلَامِهِ
You are Moses, whom God chose for His messages and for His word.
اِصْطَفَاكَ — chose you. A past-tense verb carrying a tail -ka, 'you', as object, 'chose you', pointing back to Moses through the relative. The object pronoun is fused onto the verb, and its subject, the divine name, follows in the usual order.
From: Patience Under Decree →OpenArabic teaches words like اِصْطَفَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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