Arabic vocabulary
أَنْتَقِيselect
How to say “select” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وسألتَني أن أختصره لك وأنتقي محاسنه،
You asked me to abridge it for you and to select its beauties.
وَأَنْتَقِيَ — and to select. The connector 'and' joined to a present-tense verb in the subjunctive 'and that I select', still governed by the earlier 'to' particle, with 'I' built in. The subjunctive ending carries over to this second requested action.
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