Arabic vocabulary
How to say “he looks” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
حَتَّى يَنْظُرَ إِلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ
Until he could see the Muslims.
يَنْظُرَ — he looks. A present-tense verb 'he looks/sees' that has been pushed into its goal-marking (subjunctive) shape, with the '-a' ending, because of the particle 'so that' before it. The shift signals that the looking is the intended outcome, not something already happening.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →ثُمَّ قَالَ لِيَنْظُرَ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْ جَلِيسِهِ
Then he said, "Let every man look at his companion."
لينْظر — let him look. This fuses a 'let him' command-particle to a present-tense verb, forming a third-person order, 'let each look'. The particle is what turns a plain present into a command aimed at someone other than 'you', and it bends the verb's ending to match. So one small prefix carries the 'let' force.
From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →OpenArabic teaches words like يَنْظُرَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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