Arabic vocabulary
How to say “were eager” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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.
From: Public Preaching →OpenArabic teaches words like يَحْرِصُونَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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