Arabic vocabulary
يَشْكُوcomplain
How to say “complain” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فذهب إلى البائع يشكوه
so he went to the seller to complain.
يَشْكُوهُ — to complain to him. A present-tense verb 'complain' with 'he' built in and the attached -hu 'him' as its object; placed right after the going, it reads as the purpose, 'to complain to him'.
From: Heedless Choices →فجاءه أعرابي يشكو جاره،
A Bedouin came to him complaining about his neighbor,
يَشْكُو — he complains. Present-tense 'he complains', the 'he' subject inside. Set right after the subject of 'came', it describes that man's state as he arrived, the way English uses 'complaining' in 'came complaining'. The present tense paints it as ongoing at that moment.
From: Justice in the Field →
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