كَرِهْتُI disliked in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَوَجَدْتُهُمَا نَائِمَيْنِ وَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أَغْبِقَ قِبَلَهُمَا أَهْلاً أَوْ مَالًا،

  So I found them both sleeping, and I disliked to shut them out from family or from wealth.

  وَكَرِهْتُ — and I disliked. A past-tense verb 'disliked' with its 'I' subject in the ending, fronted by wa-. The wa- links this feeling to the preceding action as the next beat, and the verb sets up a following 'to do' clause spelling out what was disliked.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أُوقِظَهُ،

  So I went to the Prophet, may Allah send blessings and peace upon him, and I was reluctant to wake him.

  فَكَرِهْتُ — so I disliked. The 'fa-' (so/then) advances the story, fused onto a past verb whose '-tu' ending means 'I', giving 'so I disliked'. It marks the narrator's reluctance as the next beat. The first-person singular subject rides inside that ending.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →