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يَلْعَبُ he is playing in Arabic

يَلْعَبُ is how you say “he is playing” in Arabic.

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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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