Arabic vocabulary
هَمَمْتُI intended
How to say “I intended” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كُلَّمَا هَمَمْتُ بِهِمْ أَشَارُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَىٰ
Whenever I intended against them, they would point to Allah, the Exalted.
هَمَمْتُ — I intended. A past verb carrying a first-person '-tu' as subject, 'I set my mind on, I made for them'. After the 'whenever' opener it reads as a repeated condition, each time he moved against them. The built-in suffix supplies the 'I' with no separate pronoun.
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