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اِجْلِسْ sit in Arabic

اِجْلِسْ is how you say “sit” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَقَالَ لِيْ اِجْلِسْ هَا هُنَا

He said to me, 'Sit right here'.

اجْلِسْ sit

A command-form verb, 'sit', aimed at a single listener. Arabic imperatives carry no separate 'you'; the addressee is built into the verb's shape, and its opening helping-vowel drops in connected reading.

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More example sentences

فَقَالَ لِي اِجْلِسْ هَا هُنَا حَتَّى أَرْجِعَ إِلَيْكَ

He said to me, "Sit here until I return to you."

اِجْلِسْ sit

A command-form verb, 'sit', for a single listener, the addressee built into its shape with no separate 'you'. Its opening helping-vowel surfaces here because the word stands at a pause.

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