Arabic vocabulary

شِئْتُI wished in Arabic

شِئْتُ is how you say “I wished” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَلَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أُزَيِّنَكُما مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ،
And if I wished, I could adorn you both with the adornments of this world,
شِئْتُ — I wished. This is a past-tense verb with the first-person 'I' built into its -tu ending, no separate pronoun needed. Under the 'if' particle it sits as the condition's verb, the wishing that the rest hangs on. The past shape here carries hypothetical force, the standard pattern after this kind of 'if'.
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