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يَشْكُو complain in Arabic

يَشْكُو is how you say “complain” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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'.

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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.

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