مُحْتَاجٌ in need in Arabic
مُحْتَاجٌ is how you say “in need” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قَالَ إِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ، وَلِيَّ حَاجَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ
He said, "I am in need, and I have dependents, and I have an urgent need."
مُحْتَاجٌ in need
An active participle, a doer-word, working here as a predicate adjective describing the speaker's state, 'in need'. There is no separate 'am' before it; Arabic joins this description straight to the 'I' of the emphatic particle.
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More example sentences
قَالَ دَعْنِي فَإِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ لَا أَعُودُ،
He said, "Let me go; I am in need and have dependents. I will not return."
مُحْتَاجٌ in need
An active participle working as a predicate adjective for the speaker's state, 'in need'. There is no separate 'am'; Arabic joins this description straight to the 'I' carried by the emphatic particle before it.
وَأَنَّهُ مُفْتَقِرٌ إِلَيْهِ مُحْتَاجٌ إِلَيْهِ
And that he is in need of Him and dependent on Him.
مُحْتَاج in need
A second active participle, 'one who is dependent', restating the same idea in parallel with the first. As a participle it presents the dependence as a settled state and again takes a 'to...' phrase.