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يَأْخُذ start in Arabic

يَأْخُذ is how you say “start” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

كان ابن عباس إذا جلس مع أصحابه حدثهم ساعة ثم قال حمضونا، فيأخذ في أحاديث العرب ثم يعود يفعل ذلك مرارًا

When Ibn Abbas sat with his companions, he would talk to them for an hour and then say, 'Refresh us,' and would start discussing Arab stories before returning, doing this repeatedly.

فَيَأْخُذُ and would start

This is fa- 'so/and then' plus a present-tense verb 'he would take up' with 'he' built in; paired with the past frame it stays habitual, 'and he would start in on...'.

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