حَفَرَ dig in Arabic
حَفَرَ is how you say “dig” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَرَأَى الْجُرْذَ يَحْفُرُ بِمَخَالِبِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ
Then he saw the rat digging with iron claws.
يَحْفُرُ he digs
A present-tense 'he/it' verb, 'digs', whose subject is the rat just mentioned. Coming right after 'saw the rat', this present form paints what the rat was caught in the middle of doing, 'saw it [as it was] digging', the Arabic way of showing an action in progress at the moment of seeing.
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More example sentences
فَأَتَى بُهْرَةً وَالْجُرَذُ يَحْفِرُ وَلَا يَكْتَرِثُ بِالْهِرَّةِ
So a female cat came, and the rat was digging and did not pay attention to the cat.
يَحْفِرُ was digging
Present-tense verb picturing an action in progress; set against the surrounding past narrative it paints the digging as ongoing at that moment. Arabic uses the present shape, not a separate 'was -ing' helper, to freeze a scene mid-action.