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تَنَافَسَ compete (mutually) in Arabic

تَنَافَسَ is how you say “compete (mutually)” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَعَرَضَ ضِيَاعَهُ عَلَى الْبَيْعِ وَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَتَنَافَسُونَ فِيهَا

So he offered his possessions for sale, and people were competing for them.

يَتَنَافَسُونَ they were competing

Present-tense verb with a built-in reciprocal sense, 'competing with one another', the plural 'they' in its ending; under the earlier 'was' it reads as ongoing past. The mutual back-and-forth is carried by the verb's pattern itself.

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