Arabic vocabulary
أَرَادُواwanted
How to say “wanted” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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.
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