أراد want in Arabic
أراد is how you say “want” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
إذا أردتَ ذِكرًا يغيِّرُ يومَك فلا تكتفِ بصوتٍ بلا معنى
If you want a remembrance that transforms your day, do not settle for a sound without meaning.
أَرَدْتَ you wanted
Past 'you wanted', with '-ta' marking 'you' (one male listener). In an 'idha' clause the past form reads as present or future — 'if you want'. So the ending tells you exactly who is addressed.
The English is machine-translated.

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More example sentences
وإن أراد سرقة شيء منه، فماذا يسرق؟،
And if he wanted to steal something from it, what could he steal?!
أَرَادَ he wanted
Past-tense verb 'willed / wanted', subject 'he' inside, the verb of the condition. It frames a hypothetical wish to steal.
فأراد أن يداويه،
so he wanted to treat it,
فأراد so he wanted
The connector 'so' fused to a past-tense verb, 'wanted', carrying its own 'he' subject, Joha. It moves the story to his reaction to the illness.