Arabic vocabulary
How to say “you prevented me” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
أَمَّا وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ مَنَعْتَنِي هَذَا لَأَمْنَعَنَّكَ مَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُ
By God, if you prevent me from this, I will surely prevent you from something that will be harder on you than this.
مَنَعْتَنِي — you prevented me. A past verb with 'you' in its -ta ending plus attached -ni 'me' as object — 'you prevent me'. Doer and done-to ride on one word; standing in the 'if' clause it states the supposed deed.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →OpenArabic teaches words like مَنَعْتَنِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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