Arabic vocabulary
How to say “opening” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
دَعَوْتُ زَوْجَتَيَّ لِفَتْحِ الْبَابِ،
I called my two wives to open the door.
لِفَتْحِ — to open. This bundles the preposition li- ('to, in order to') with an action-noun, the naming form of a verb, to express purpose: 'in order to open'. Li- before such an action-noun is Arabic's standard 'so as to' device, and it puts that action-noun in the genitive. It tells why the wives were called.
From: A Night of Reckoning →OpenArabic teaches words like فَتْحِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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