Arabic vocabulary
How to say “I noticed” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَمَا شَعَرْتُ إِلَّا بِالْأَنْصَارِيِّ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ
I only noticed the Ansari while he was speaking.
شَعَرْتُ — I noticed. A past verb 'I sensed/noticed' with '-tu' for the 'I' subject; under the negation it sets up the 'I noticed nothing except...' surprise frame. The doer is folded in.
From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →OpenArabic teaches words like شَعَرْتُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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