Arabic vocabulary
How to say “I burn” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَأَكَادُ أَنْ أَحْتَرِقَ
I am about to burn.
أَحْتَرِقَ — I burn. A present verb of burning in the subjunctive, its mood forced by the 'an' before it, carrying its first-person 'I' subject inside. It is the act the verb of nearness says he almost reaches. The altered ending marks the subjunctive the particle triggers.
From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →OpenArabic teaches words like أَحْتَرِقَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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