Arabic vocabulary
How to say “return” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
قال الفراء تبدى بالمطر ثم ترجع به في كل عام
Al-Farra' said: It appears with rain and then returns with it every year.
تَرْجِعُ — it returns. A present-tense verb 'it returns' with the feminine 'it' subject built in, the sky. The present keeps the action habitual, suiting a yearly cycle.
From: Signs of Resurrection →وكذلك قال ابن عباس ﵄ تبدى بالمطر ثم ترجع به في كل عام
And Ibn Abbas similarly said: It appears with rain and then returns with it every year.
تَرْجِعُ — it returns. A present-tense verb 'it returns' with the feminine 'it' subject built in, the sky. The present keeps the action habitual.
From: Signs of Resurrection →ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان ترجعه رجعًا أي تعطيه مرة بعد مرة
And the sky's return is the provision of good which comes from it continuously over time, returning repeatedly, meaning it gives repeatedly over and over.
تَرْجِعُهُ — returning it. A present-tense verb 'it returns it', built on an intensive doubled pattern adding 'again and again', with a built-in feminine 'it' doer (the sky) and an attached 'it' object. One word holds verb, hidden subject, and pronoun object.
From: Signs of Resurrection →OpenArabic teaches words like رَجَع through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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