Arabic vocabulary
How to say “to forget” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
عجبت لمن يعجب بصورته وينسى مبدأ أمره
I am amazed at the one who admires his appearance and forgets his origins.
وَيَنْسَى — and forgets. The joined 'and' plus a present-tense verb that carries its own 'he' subject, continuing the description of the same person. The present form keeps the action habitual: and forgets.
From: A Path to Mercy →وينسى أنه خلق من نطفة ثم من علقة، ثم صار مضغة، ثم صار عظامًا، ثم كسي لحما
and forgets that he was created from a drop, then a clot, then a lump of flesh, then bones, then clothed with flesh.
وَيَنْسَى — and forgets. The joined 'and' plus a present-tense verb carrying its own 'he' subject, continuing the description of the same forgetful person. The present form keeps it habitual: and he forgets.
From: A Path to Mercy →وينسى ما يلحقه من الأمراض والأسقام، وما يعتريه من الكبر والهرم،
And forgets what afflicts him of diseases and ailments, and what befalls him of old age and senility,
وَيَنْسَى — and forgets. The joined 'and' plus a present-tense verb carrying its own 'he' subject, continuing the theme of forgetting. The present form keeps it habitual.
From: A Path to Mercy →ثم ينسى ما بعد الموت من أهوال القبر وسؤال منكر ونكير،
Then forgets what comes after death: the horrors of the grave and the questioning by Munkar and Nakir,
يَنْسَى — he forgets. A present-tense verb carrying its own 'he' subject, the habitual 'he forgets'. It governs the 'what' clause that follows as its object.
From: A Path to Mercy →ثم ينسى البعث والحساب والميزان والصراط
Then forgets the resurrection, the reckoning, the balance, and the path.
يَنْسَى — he forgets. A present-tense verb carrying its own 'he' subject, the habitual 'he forgets'. The list of things forgotten follows as its objects.
From: A Path to Mercy →يَغْدُو عَلَيَّ الْخُبْزُ مِنْ خَابِزٍ لَا يَقْبَلُ الرَهْنَ وَلَا يَنْسَى،
Bread comes to me in the morning from a baker who neither accepts pledges nor overlooks debts.
ينسي — overlooks. A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject built into the shape, describing another habit of the baker. The negation before it flips it to 'does not overlook/forget', with the doer carried inside the verb.
From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →مَا أَعْجَبَ أَمْرُكَ يَا مَنْ يَوْقِنُ بِأَمْرٍ ثُمَّ يَنْسَاهُ،
How astonishing is your affair, O you who are certain of a matter and then forget it,
يَنْسَاهُ — forgets it. A present-tense verb with the object suffix -hu ('it') fused to its end, so one Arabic word carries both 'forgets' and 'it'. The attached 'it' points back to the 'matter' he had been certain of, tracking the same thing across the clause to make the contradiction land.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →وَيَنْسَى مَا قَدْ كَانَ مِمَّا تَتَزَلْزَلُ الأَرْضُ لِبَعْضِهِ
And he forgets what had been, even when the earth trembles because of part of it!
وَيَنْسَى — and forgets. A 'wa-' fused to a present-tense verb, 'and he forgets'. The 'wa-' links this to the previous line as a continuing description. The verb's 'he' subject is built into its form, carried over from the suffering person already in view, so no new subject word is needed.
From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like يَنْسَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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