Arabic vocabulary

مُنِعَprevented in Arabic

مُنِعَ is how you say “prevented” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فلما حل الهدم بودي سارة منع الولدان يجوز،
When the ruin befell Sarah’s town, children were no longer allowed to pass.
مُنِعَ — was prevented. This is the passive form of the verb: the children are the ones forbidden, and the forbidder is left unnamed. Arabic adds no helper word like 'were'; it marks the passive by reshaping the inner vowels of the verb, so the act lands on its receiver, who is named next as the delayed subject.
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