Arabic vocabulary
تَنَكَّرَdeny in Arabic
تَنَكَّرَ is how you say “deny” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
إِنْ عَرَفُوا تَنَكَّرُوا،
If they knew, they denied it.
تَنَكَّرُوا — they denied. A past-tense 'they' verb with the doubled middle consonant of the intensive/reflexive pattern, here the 'made themselves act unknowing' shade. It is the response half of the condition, the consequence that follows from the 'if' verb before it.
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