Arabic vocabulary
أَرَدْنَا is how you say “we wanted” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
يُرِيدُ مِنْهَا مِثْلَ الَّذِي أَرَدْنَا
He wants from her the same thing we wanted.
أَرَدْنَا — we wanted. A past-tense verb whose '-na' ending means 'we', so the plural subject rides inside the form. It fills the relative clause, naming what the narrator's side had wanted. The built-in first-person plural subject is why no separate 'we' appears.
From: A Night with the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like أَرَدْنَا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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