Arabic vocabulary
How to say “I wake him” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أُوقِظَهُ،
So I went to the Prophet, may Allah send blessings and peace upon him, and I was reluctant to wake him.
أُوقِظَهُ — I wake him. A present-tense verb with its 'I' subject built in and the pronoun '-hu' (him) fused on, here in its subjunctive shape because of the 'to' particle before it, giving 'to wake him'. That altered ending is the verb's response to the subordinator, marking the act as a contemplated aim. The '-hu' is the one to be woken.
From: A Night with the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like أُوقِظَهُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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