Arabic vocabulary
How to say “wanted” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
كان من سنة الهند أنهم إذا أرادوا تناول الغذاء اغتسلوا
It was a custom in India that when they wanted to eat, they would bathe.
أَرَادُوا — they wanted. A past-tense verb with its plural subject 'they' built into the ending, filling the 'when' clause. Arabic packs 'they wanted' into one word, the doer signalled by the verb's shape, setting the condition for what they did.
From: The Art of Eating Well →OpenArabic teaches words like أَرَادُوا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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