Arabic vocabulary
يَنْتَهُونَthey defer
How to say “they defer” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَجْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَيَنْتَهُونَ إِلَى رَأْيِهِ
And people would gather around him and defer to his opinion.
وَيَنْتَهُونَ — and they defer. A coordinating wa- on a present-tense verb, adding a second habitual action to the first. The plural 'they' is inside the verb, and the wa- simply links deferring to gathering.
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