Arabic vocabulary
How to say “I watched” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَرَصَدْتُهُ الثَّالِثَةَ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ،
I watched for him a third time, and he came scooping up food.
فَرَصَدْتُهُ — I watched for him. A past-tense verb with the 'I' subject in its '-tu' ending and an attached 'him' pronoun as object. The opening 'fa-' moves the story to its next stage; one word holds the watching, its doer, and the watched man.
From: The Verse of the Throne →OpenArabic teaches words like فَرَصَدْتُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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