Arabic vocabulary
تَلاَعَبْتُtoy with
How to say “toy with” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
لَوْ كَانُوا مِنَ النَّاسِ مَا تَلاَعَبْتُ بِهِمْ
If they had been from the people, I would not have toyed with them.
تَلاَعَبْتُ — I would have toyed. A past verb on a reciprocal/playful pattern carrying a first-person '-tu' as subject, 'I toyed'. Negated and inside the counterfactual it reads 'I would not have toyed', the unreal consequence. It leads into 'with them' naming whom he would have spared.
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