Arabic vocabulary
How to say “thinks” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
يحسب ابن آدم أكلات يقمن صلبه،
A human needs only a few bites that sustain his spine.
يَحْسُبُ — he thinks. A present-tense verb here meaning 'it is enough for', used to introduce what suffices a person; the subject 'it' is built in and the person comes next. The present tense gives it a general, timeless force.
From: The One-Third Rule →OpenArabic teaches words like يَحْسُبُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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