Arabic vocabulary
رَجَوْتُI would have hoped
How to say “I would have hoped” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
لَوْ حَلَفْتُ لَرَجَوْتُ أَنْ أَبَرَّ
If I had sworn, I would have hoped to keep it.
لَرَجَوْتُ — then I would have hoped. The prefixed l- here is the answering particle that opens the RESULT half of an unreal condition, the 'then...' that responds to the earlier 'if'. Riding on it is a past-tense verb with '-I' built in. So this word both signals 'then I would have' and names the consequence of the supposed oath.
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