Arabic vocabulary
سرق is how you say “steal” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فأيُّ شيء يسرق منه،
So what could he steal from it,
يَسْرِقُ — he steal. A present-tense verb 'steals', subject 'he' (the thief) inside, the act being questioned. Set in a rhetorical question it really means there is nothing he could steal.
From: Repelling the Devil →وإن أراد سرقة شيء منه، فماذا يسرق؟،
And if he wanted to steal something from it, what could he steal?!
يَسْرِقُ — he steals. A present-tense verb 'steals', subject 'he' inside, the act questioned. The whole answer-clause means there is nothing for him to take.
From: Repelling the Devil →OpenArabic teaches words like سرق through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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