Arabic vocabulary
مُطَالِب is how you say “demand” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وكان الحسن دائم الحزن، كثير البكاء، مطالبا نفسه بالحقائق،
Al-Hasan was constantly sorrowful, often weeping, demanding truths of himself,
مُطَالِبًا — demanding. This is an active participle, 'demanding', serving as another predicate of the copula and so taking the object form. As a doer-noun it carries a verb-like force and reaches out to its own object next.
From: The Grandson's Noble Grief →OpenArabic teaches words like مُطَالِب through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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