Arabic vocabulary
How to say “he lay down” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَاضْطَجَعَ فِي ظِلِّهَا
Then he lay down in its shade.
فَاضْطَجَعَ — then he lay down. This is a past-tense verb in a pattern meaning 'lay himself down', with the 'he' subject inside. The leading 'fa-' presents the lying-down as the next event, following his arrival at the tree.
From: The Joy of Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like اضْطَجَعَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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