Arabic vocabulary
ذَاهِبٌgoing
How to say “going” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ هَلْ أَنْتَ ذَاهِبٌ فَقُلْتُ وَاللَّهِ مَا بِي أَنْ أَقْتُلَ
He said, "Are you going?" I said, "By God, I have no intention of killing."
ذَاهِب — going. This is an '-ing' form (active participle) working as the predicate, describing the subject as 'going' or 'in the act of going'. Arabic uses such a participle plus a pronoun to make a full present-state sentence without any verb 'to be'. So 'you' plus this word equals 'are you going'.
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