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أَعْرِفُ I can tell in Arabic

أَعْرِفُ is how you say “I can tell” in Arabic.

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أَعْرِفُ فِيهِ الْجُوعَ، فَهَلْ عِنْدَكِ مِنْ شَيْءٍ

I can tell he is hungry. Do you have anything?

أَعْرِفُ I can tell

A present-shape verb with 'I' in its prefix -- 'I recognize/can tell'. The present frames it as a current perception, Abu Talhah reading the hunger in the Prophet's voice as he speaks.

From The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty

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وَكَانَ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ يَقُولُ إِنِّي لَأَعْصِيَ اللَّهَ، فَأَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ فِي خَلْقِ دَابَّتِي وَجَارِيَتِي

Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad used to say: I do disobey God, and I perceive that in the nature of my mount and my female servant.

فَأَعْرِفُ so I perceive

A 'fa-' fused to a first-person present verb, 'so I perceive'. The 'fa-' here marks consequence, 'and as a result', tying the perceiving to the disobedience just confessed: the sin shows up in its effects. The verb's 'I' subject is built into its form, and it governs the 'that' pointed at next.

From Preparing for Death and Repentance

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