Arabic vocabulary
يَلْعَبُhe is playing
How to say “he is playing” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
حَتَّى وَجَدُوهُ يَلْعَبُ مَعَ الْصِّبْيَانِ
Until they found him playing with the boys.
يَلْعَبُ — he is playing. A present-tense verb, 'he is playing', with 'he' inside; placed after 'found him' it describes the state he was in when found, an ongoing action caught in progress. Arabic uses the present this way to paint a simultaneous scene.
From: A Night with the Companions →
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