Arabic vocabulary
How to say “sit down” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
قَالَ اِقْعُدْ فَاشْرَبْ
He said, "Sit down and drink."
اِقْعُدْ — sit down. A command verb 'sit down', addressed to 'you' (singular), so no subject pronoun appears; its opening vowel is sounded only when it starts the utterance. A command verb already implies its addressee. Arabic forms the order by the bare command shape.
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