يَحْثُو scoop up in Arabic
يَحْثُو is how you say “scoop up” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَأَتَانِيٓ آتٍ فَجَعَلَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ، فَأَخَذْتُهُ،
Then a man came to me and began scooping up the food, so I seized him.
يَحْثُو he scoops up
A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject in the prefix, governed by the 'began to' verb before it to depict an action just getting underway. Arabic pairs a present verb with the helper to express the onset where English uses 'began to'.
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فَرَصَدْتُهُ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِّنَ الطَّعَامِ فَأَخَذْتُهُ
So I watched him. He came, scooping up from the food, so I seized him.
يَحْثُو he was scooping up
A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject in the prefix, used here for a vivid ongoing circumstance running alongside 'came', 'came scooping'. Arabic uses this present-as-description where English adds an '-ing' clause of manner.
فَرَصَدْتُهُ الثَّالِثَةَ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ،
I watched for him a third time, and he came scooping up food.
يَحْثُو he scooped up
A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject in the prefix, used for a vivid ongoing circumstance alongside 'came', 'came scooping'. Arabic uses this present-as-description where English adds an '-ing' clause of manner.