Arabic vocabulary
يَحْزَن is how you say “grieve” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
نعم لَا يَأْثَم صَاحبه إِذا لم يقْتَرن بحزنه محرم كَمَا يحزن على المصائب
Yes, one does not sin for it if his sadness is not accompanied by something prohibited, as one grieves over calamities.
يَحْزَنُ — he grieves. Present-tense verb, 'he grieves', with its 'he' built in, inside the comparison clause. The present form states the ordinary, permissible grieving being compared to.
From: Patience in Hard Times →OpenArabic teaches words like يَحْزَن through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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