Arabic vocabulary
أَرْغَبُI prefer
How to say “I prefer” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
لَفَعَلْتُ، وَلَكِنِّي أَرْغَبُ بِكُمَا عَنْ ذَلِكَ وَأَزْوِيهِ عَنْكُمَا،
I would have done it, but I prefer to spare you both that, and I will keep it away from you both.
أَرْغَبُ — I prefer. This is a present-tense verb with first-person 'I' built into its form. It states the speaker's actual preference, contrasting with the rejected hypothetical. The verb's shape alone carries the 'I', so no separate pronoun is needed.
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