يَحْرِصُونَwere eager in Arabic

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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