Arabic vocabulary
حَفِظْتَ is how you say “preserve” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَإِن حفظته مَعَ إصْلَاح الْوَقْتَيْنِ اللَّذين قبله وَبعده بِمَا ذكرت نجوت وفزت بالراحة واللذة وَالنَّعِيم
And if you preserve it, along with correcting the periods before and after as I mentioned, you succeed and attain comfort, pleasure, and bliss.
حَفِظْتَهُ — you preserve it. 'You' in the '-ta' and 'it' in the '-hu', the verb meaning 'guard, keep safe'. It is the condition's verb: 'if you keep it' rather than squander it.
From: Repentance and Resolve →OpenArabic teaches words like حَفِظْتَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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