Arabic vocabulary
أَضَاعَ is how you say “waste” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
والابتلاء بقرناء السوء الَّذين يفسدون الْقلب ويضيعون الْوَقْت
And the trial of bad companions who corrupt the heart and waste time.
وَيُضَيِّعُونَ — and they waste. wa- = 'and'; present-tense verb 'waste' with the built-in subject 'they' ('-una').
From: Returning to God →أرى فقهاء هذا العصر طُرًّا أضاعوا العلم واشتغلوا بلِمْ لِمْ
I see all the jurists of this era have neglected knowledge and are busy with 'why, why.'
أَضَاعُوا — they neglected. Past 'they wasted, lost', the -u marking 'they' — the second half of 'I see them [having] wasted...'; form-IV.
From: Avoiding Scholarly Disputation →OpenArabic teaches words like أَضَاعَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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