Arabic vocabulary
إِعْتَذَرْتُI offered an excuse in Arabic
إِعْتَذَرْتُ is how you say “I offered an excuse” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَلَئِنِ إِعْتَذَرْتُ لَا تَعْذِرُونَنِي،
And even if I offered an excuse, you would not accept it.
اعْتَذَرْتُ — I offered an excuse. A derived-pattern past verb with the -tu 'I' ending; this particular pattern often carries a reflexive or self-directed flavour, fitting 'I made my excuse'. Inside the 'if' clause it reads as a supposed act, the condition whose consequence the next words deny.
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