Arabic vocabulary
How to say “to become” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
حين تستقرّ العادةُ، تصير كالعجلة على سكّة؛ أقلُّ احتكاك، أسرعُ وصول
When the habit becomes settled, it is like a wheel on a track; less friction, faster arrival.
تَصِيرُ — it is. 'becomes,' a 'become'-verb (sister of 'was'), feminine for 'the habit.' Like those verbs it would throw a noun-predicate into the -a form; here the predicate is a 'like' phrase. The settled habit BECOMES like a wheel on rails.
From: Steady Spiritual Habits →هكذا تصير الذاكرةُ مسكنًا صالحًا للسكنى لا مستودعَ فوضى
Thus, memory becomes a dwelling fit to live in, not a warehouse of chaos.
تَصِيرُ — it becomes. 'becomes,' a 'become'-verb (sister of 'was'), feminine for 'memory.' Like its sisters it throws its predicate into the -a form — 'a dwelling' next. Well-tended memory BECOMES a livable home.
From: Retaining the Quran →فَإِنَّكَ تَصِيرُ إِلَى مِثْلِ هَذَا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ
So indeed you will come to such a place on the earth.
تَصِيرُ — you will come. A present-tense verb meaning 'come to / end up at', with its second-person 'you' subject built into the verb shape. No separate pronoun is needed; the ending carries the addressee. It then leans on the preposition after it to name where 'you' will arrive.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →OpenArabic teaches words like تَصِيرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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