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تَكَلَّمُ speak in Arabic

تَكَلَّمُ is how you say “speak” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَكَثِيرٌ مِمَّنْ يَتَكَلَّمُ فِي الحَقِيقَةِ فَيَشْهَدُهَا

And many of those who speak about the truth testify to it.

يَتَكَلَّمُ he speaks

A present-tense verb 'speaks' with its 'he' subject built in, the action that defines the people just picked out. Its plain present form marks a habitual, characterizing act.

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More example sentences

إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ يَضْحَكُ بِهَا جُلَسَاؤُهُ يَهْوِي بِهَا أَبْعَدَ مِنَ الثَّرَيَّا

Indeed, a man speaks a word that makes his companions laugh by it, and by it he sinks farther than the Pleiades.

لَيَتَكَلَّمُ indeed, speaks

A verb fronted by an emphatic 'la-', the 'surely / truly' marker that answers the inna opener, attached to a present-tense verb whose 'he' subject is built in. So the la- stresses the action while the verb carries the speaking, 'he surely speaks'.

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