يَنْبَغِيَ ought to in Arabic
يَنْبَغِيَ is how you say “ought to” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
يَنْبَغِيَ أَلَّا يَقْصُرَ الإِنسَانُ فِي رِعَايَةِ حَقِّهِ
One should not be negligent in safeguarding his right.
يَنْبَغِيَ one ought
An impersonal verb of obligation meaning roughly 'it ought / is fitting', with no real personal subject — it states what should be the case in general. It heads the sentence and sets up a 'that ...' clause to follow, where the actual content of the obligation is spelled out. The final vowel reflects its place before that clause.
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More example sentences
فَيَنْبَغِيَ لِلْعَبْدِ أَنْ يَذْكُرَ مَنَنَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى عَلَيْهِ
Therefore, the servant ought to acknowledge the favors that Allah, the Exalted, has bestowed upon him.
فَيَنْبَغِيَ so ought to
This is the connector 'so/therefore' fused onto a verb of obligation; the prefix draws a conclusion from what came before. The verb states that something is fitting or due, and it leads into a 'for-whom' phrase next.