Arabic vocabulary
تَعَجَّبَwas amazed
How to say “was amazed” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فتعجب الوزير وقال وكيف اشتريت دارًا في الجنة؟
The minister was amazed and said: How did you buy a house in Paradise?
فَتَعَجَّبَ — so he was amazed. The fa- on the front links this to the previous sentence as a 'and so / and then' step in the story. The verb itself is a reflexive pattern: its built-in vowel shaping turns the root for 'wonder' into 'became amazed at himself', an inward change of state rather than an action done to something else.
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