Arabic vocabulary
How to say “they walked” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَأَقْبَلُوا يَسِيرُونَ حَتَّى أَتَوْا مَرَّ الظَّهْرَانِ،
They then set out walking until they reached Marr al-Zahran.
يَسِيرُونَ — they walked. A present-tense verb 'they walk' set right after the previous one to describe HOW they advanced: it acts like an adverbial side-action, 'they came on, walking'. Arabic often stacks a present verb after a past one this way to paint the manner of the main action.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like يَسِيرُونَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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