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يَرْعَى tending in Arabic

يَرْعَى is how you say “tending” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

كَالرَّاعِي يرْعَى حول الْحمى يُوشك أَن يَقع فِيهِ

Like a shepherd grazing around a sanctuary, he is likely to fall into it.

يَرْعَى he grazes

Present-tense verb, 'he grazes', carrying its own 'he'. It describes ongoing habitual action and opens a small descriptive clause about the shepherd; no separate subject word is needed.

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More example sentences

وَيَرْعَى عَلَيْهِمَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةَ مَوْلَى أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ مِنْحَةً مِنْ غَنَمٍ،

And Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, tends them with a gift of sheep.

وَيَرْعَى and tends

The wa- starts a new linked clause introducing a fresh character, and the verb behind it is a present 'he tends' with the single-male subject built in. The wa- here joins whole statements, not just two nouns.

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