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أَنْفَقَ spend in Arabic

أَنْفَقَ is how you say “spend” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ملأوا مراكب الْقُلُوب مَتَاعا لَا تنْفق إِلَّا على الْملك

They filled the vessels of hearts with goods that can only be spent on the King.

تُنْفَقُ be spent

A passive verb — the inner vowels make it 'is spent', with the feminine subject (the goods) and no spender named. Arabic marks the passive by the vowel pattern.

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وقال ﴿وَلا يَأْتُونَ الصَّلاةَ إِلَّا وَهُمْ كُسَالَى وَلا يُنْفِقُونَ إِلَّا وَهُمْ كَارِهُونَ﴾

And He said, 'They do not approach prayer except lazily, and they do not spend except reluctantly.'

يُنْفِقُونَ they spend

This present-tense verb carries a built-in plural 'they' subject, 'they spend'. Under the negation before it, it means they do not spend; the plural doer is shown by the verb ending.

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