Arabic vocabulary
نَبْنِى is how you say “let us build” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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.
From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →OpenArabic teaches words like نَبْنِى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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