Arabic vocabulary
ٱسْمَعُوlisten
How to say “listen” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
اسمعوا وصفي للسلف فإني ألتذ بذكرهم التذاذ
Listen to my description of the predecessors, for I find pleasure in mentioning them.
ٱسْمَعُوا — you listen. This is a command addressed to a group, with the plural -u ending marking an order to more than one person. Arabic forms the imperative by stripping the verb to this bare order shape, the audience understood from the form.
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