Arabic vocabulary
نَبْنِىlet us build
How to say “let us build” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالُوا نَبْنِى صَوْمَعَتَكَ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ
They said, "Let us build your minaret of gold."
نَبْنِي — let us build. A present-shape verb carrying 'we' in its 'n-' prefix, used as a let's-do-it proposal -- 'let us build'. Arabic leans on the plain present here to voice a group intention rather than a statement of fact.
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