Arabic vocabulary
يَلْعَبُhe is playing in Arabic
يَلْعَبُ is how you say “he is playing” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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