Arabic vocabulary
أَدْرِيI know
How to say “I know” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَ بِمَكَّةِ قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي
He said, "In Mecca he said, 'I do not know.'"
أَدْرِي — I know. A first-person present verb of knowing, with 'I' inside; its long final vowel marks the form. Under the 'not' before it, it states plain ignorance: 'I have no idea'.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →فَقُلْتُ لَهُ بِمَكَّةِ قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي
So I said to him in Mecca. He said, "I do not know."
أَدْرِي — I know. A first-person present verb of knowing, with 'I' inside. Under the 'not' before it, it states plain ignorance.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →
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