Arabic vocabulary
How to say “to look” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
ينظر الإنسان إلى حسن صورته واعتدال قوامه، فيفرح بها ويفتخر،
A person looks at the beauty of his appearance and the harmony of his form, and he rejoices in them and boasts,
يَنْظُرُ — he looks. A present-tense verb carrying its own 'he' subject, here describing a general truth about people. The present form gives the habitual 'a person looks'.
From: A Path to Mercy →لِيَعْلَمَ فِرْعَوْنُ حِينَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا أَنَّ مَقْدَرَتُهُ تَعْجِزُ عَنْ مِثْلِ مَا أُوتِيتُمَا،
Pharaoh will know when he looks at it that his power cannot match what you two were given.
يَنْظُرُ — he looks. This is a present-tense verb with a singular 'he' subject built into its form. Under the 'when' particle it supplies the timed action, the looking. The present shape after this temporal word frames the looking as the ongoing moment in which the realization lands.
From: Under God's Shield →OpenArabic teaches words like يَنْظُرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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