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تَمَنَّى he wished in Arabic

تَمَنَّى is how you say “he wished” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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