Arabic vocabulary
How to say “was tainted” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
إلا أنه تكدّر بأشياء وفاتته أشياء
However, it is tainted by things and missed other things.
تَكَدَّرَ — was tainted. A past-tense verb, 'it became clouded / tainted', with its subject 'it' built in. The verb's reflexive inner shape gives it a 'got itself spoiled' sense, describing the book as marred.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →فالأشياء التي تكدر بها عشرة
So the things that it is tainted by are ten.
تَكَدَّرَ — it is tainted. A past-tense verb, 'it got tainted', inside the relative clause, with its inner reflexive shape giving the 'became spoiled' sense. It says what was done to the things being specified.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →OpenArabic teaches words like تَكَدَّرَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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