Arabic vocabulary
نَخَافُwe fear
How to say “we fear” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كُنَّا نَخَافُ أَنْ يَأْتِيَنَا،
We were afraid that he would come to us.
نَخَافُ — we fear. A present verb 'we fear' with the 'we' subject built into its prefix; paired with the past helper it gives an ongoing past dread. It then takes a goal-clause as what was feared.
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