Arabic vocabulary
How to say “split” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وفسر الصدع بالنبات، لأنه يصدع الأرض أي يشقها
The splitting was interpreted as the plants, for it splits the earth, meaning it breaks through it.
يَصْدَعُ — splits. A present-tense verb with its 'it' subject inside the form, governing the next noun directly as its object. Present tense here states a general, repeated truth about what the plant does, the way English uses the simple present for habitual facts.
From: Witnesses to God's Word →وفسر الصدع بالنبات، لأنه يصدع الأرض أي يشقها
And the splitting is explained as the plants, because they split the earth, meaning they break through it.
يَصْدَعُ — splits. A present-tense verb 'it splits' with the doer 'it' built in, the plant. The present form casts splitting as what the plant characteristically does in growing.
From: Signs of Resurrection →وفسر الصدع بالنبات، لأنه يصدع الأرض أي يشقها
And the cleaving is interpreted as vegetation, as it cleaves the earth, meaning it splits it open.
يَصْدَعُ — it cleaves. This is a present-tense verb 'it cleaves/splits', its subject carried inside the verb. It states the action by which the growth breaks the earth, governing the object that follows.
From: Oaths That Seal the Truth →OpenArabic teaches words like يَصْدَعُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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