أَسْتَزْرِيI despise

Example sentences

• فَصِرْتُ أَسْتَزْرِي مَا النَّاسُ فِيهِ،

  So I came to despise what people valued in it.

  أَسْتَزْرِي — I despise. A present-tense verb with an 'I' subject in its prefix, serving as the complement of the 'became' verb before it: I became one-who-belittles. Arabic often pairs a 'became' verb with a following present-tense verb to show the new ongoing habit. The prefix alone carries the speaker.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →