Arabic vocabulary
بَذَلْتُ is how you say “I devoted” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَاللَّهِ لَوْ كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَذْهَبِيِّ لَبَذَلْتُ رَوْحِيَ وَمَالِيَ فِي خِدْمَتِهِ
By God, if he had been of my school of thought, I would have devoted my life and my wealth to serving him.
لَبَذَلْتُ — I would have devoted. A past verb 'devoted/spent' carrying a prefixed emphatic 'surely', which is the answering signal that the counterfactual's payoff begins — 'then I would surely have devoted'. The prefix marks the result clause and adds emphatic colour.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →OpenArabic teaches words like بَذَلْتُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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