Arabic vocabulary
يَكْتَرِثُ is how you say “he cares” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فَلَّا يَكْتَرِثُ بِمُخَالَفَةِ النَّاكِبِينَ عَنْهُ لَهُ،
So he does not care about the opposition of those who turn away from him to him.
يَكْتَرِثُ — he cares. A present-tense verb, 'he cares/heeds', with its 'he' subject carried inside the form rather than as a separate word. Sitting under the negator before it, it is read as 'does not heed'. It is the main verb of the consequence opened by the preceding fa-.
From: Choosing Good Companions →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.
يَكْتَرِثُ — pay attention. Present-tense verb continuing the in-progress backdrop, its 'he/it' held inside the word. Under the la before it, the action is denied, so the rat is shown failing to do this thing while it digs.
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