Arabic vocabulary
تَمَنَّىhe wished
How to say “he wished” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَتَمَنَّى أَنْ يَلْحَقَ بِهِ
And he wished that it would befall him.
وَتَمَنَّى — and he wished. Opens with a narrative connector 'wa-' carrying the story forward, joined to a past verb of wishing that holds its 'he' subject inside. The 'wa-' here is the storytelling 'and then'. The verb sets up a following 'that' clause naming what he wished for.
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