Arabic vocabulary
How to say “is walking” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فَإِذَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَمْشِي وَحْدَهُ،
Then the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, was walking alone.
يَمْشِي — is walking. A present-tense verb of walking with its 'he' subject built in. Coming after the surprise-scene setup, it paints an ongoing action caught in progress, 'was walking', the form showing continuous motion rather than a finished event.
From: Paradise for the Sincere →وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَمْشِي مَشْيًا،
And among them are some who walk at a steady pace,
يَمْشِي — walks. A present-tense verb ('walks') with the 'he' subject built in, read as a recurring type. Its final long vowel marks a weak-root pattern. The subject is carried inside the verb, so no pronoun is spelled out.
From: The Bridge to Paradise →OpenArabic teaches words like يَمْشِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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