Arabic vocabulary
بَنَوْ is how you say “they built” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَسَلَّطَ عَلَى الرَّدْمِ الَّذِي بَنَوْهُ عَلَى غَيْرِ شُرْبِهِمْ
So He sent it upon the embankment they had built, preventing them from drinking.
بَنَوْهُ — they built it. A past-tense 'they' verb with an 'it' object suffix on the end, so it bundles subject, action, and object: 'they-built-it'. The '-u' is its built-in 'they', the people of Sheba, and the suffix is the embankment, looping back to the relative pronoun's antecedent. It sits inside the clause describing that dam.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like بَنَوْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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