Arabic vocabulary
يَخْتِلُhe was strutting
How to say “he was strutting” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
الَّتِي فِيهَا إِبْنُ صَيَّادٍ وَهُوَ يَخْتِلُ
in which Ibn Sayyad was present and he was strutting.
يَخْتِلُ — was strutting. A present-tense verb carrying its 'he' subject inside the form. Sitting after the 'while he' opener, it supplies the ongoing action of that side-description, picturing what the person was doing at the same time as the main event.
From: A Night with the Companions →
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