اِجْلِسْsit in Arabic

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →

• 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.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →