Arabic vocabulary
How to say “to judge” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
إن أول الناس يقضى يوم القيامة عليه رجل اسُتشهد، فأتي به، فعرفه نعمته، فعرفها، قال فما عملت فيها؟
Indeed, the first of the people to be judged on the Day of Resurrection will be a man who was martyred. He will be brought, and Allah will make him recognize His blessings, and he will recognize them, and He will say: 'What did you do with them?'
يُقْضَى — to be judged. This is a passive-shaped verb: judgment is passed on the man, who receives the action rather than doing it, with no judge spelled out as subject. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the verb's vowels, so the form itself shows he is the one judged.
From: Intentions on Judgment Day →OpenArabic teaches words like يُقْضَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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