يمتنع refrain in Arabic
يمتنع is how you say “refrain” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وإذا كانوا يقولون الوقت الحاضر والساعة الراهنة وإن لم يفعلا ذلك فكيف يمتنع أن يقولوا ماء دافق وعيشة راضية
And if they say 'the present time' and 'the current hour' without those phrases acting, how could they refrain from saying 'gushing water' and 'contented life'?
يَمْتَنِعُونَ they refrain
A present-tense verb 'they refrain', carrying its plural 'they' subject in the -una ending. Under the rhetorical 'how', it questions and effectively denies that they would hold back; the plural ending marks the group.
The English is machine-translated.

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