Arabic vocabulary
مَنَعْتَنِي is how you say “you prevented me” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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