Arabic vocabulary
How to say “turn” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
قال تقلب الكيس حتى يكون موضع التسرب من فوق، فلا يقع منه شيء
He said: Turn the bag so that the leaking spot is on top, and nothing will fall out of it.
تَقْلِبُ — you turn. A present-tense verb 'turn' with 'you' built in, used here as a gentle command, 'you turn it'; Arabic can phrase an instruction with the plain present rather than the clipped imperative.
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