Arabic vocabulary
يَقْرِضُhe gnaws in Arabic
يَقْرِضُ is how you say “he gnaws” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَيَقْرِضُ بِآنِيَابٍ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ
And he gnaws with fangs of iron.
وَيَقْرِضُ — and he gnaws. A 'wa-' fused to a present-tense 'he/it' verb, 'and he gnaws'. The 'wa-' links this to the digging, adding a second simultaneous action of the rat, while the present form keeps it in progress, 'and gnawing'. The 'he' subject is built in, still the rat. It governs the 'with...' phrase next.
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