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حَيِيتُ live in Arabic

حَيِيتُ is how you say “live” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ثم قال لئن أنا حييت حتى آكل تمراتي هذه إنها لحياة طويلة

Then he said: 'If I live until I eat my dates, it will indeed be a long life!'

حَيِيتُ I live

A past-tense verb meaning 'I lived/survived', with the -tu ending marking the 'I' doer. The doubled-root spelling is just how this particular root behaves; the key grammar is that the speaker-subject is carried by the ending, not a separate word.

From A Handful of Dates and Paradise

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