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كَرِهْتُ I disliked in Arabic

كَرِهْتُ is how you say “I disliked” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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More example sentences

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

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