Arabic vocabulary
أَحَبَّبْتُI wanted
How to say “I wanted” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَأَحَبَّبْتُ أَنْ أَتَزَوَّجَ إِمْرَأَةً تَجْمَعُهُنَّ،
So I wanted to marry a woman who would gather them.
فَأَحْبَبْتُ — so I wanted. The prefix fa- links this as the consequence of what was said before ('and so'), and the -tu ending fixes the doer as 'I'. The verb is past tense, expressing the wish that drives the next clause.
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