Arabic vocabulary
يَحْرِصُونَwere eager
How to say “were eager” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَكَانَ زُوَّارُ بَغْدَادِ يَحْرِصُونَ عَلَى حُضُورِ مَجَالِسِهِ
Visitors to Baghdad were eager to attend his sessions.
يَحْرِصُونَ — they were eager. A present-tense plural verb paired with the earlier 'was' copula. That pairing is what turns a present form into a past habitual reading ('used to be eager'). The plural ending matches the visitors; together copula-plus-present express a settled, repeated state.
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