Arabic vocabulary
إِلْتَفَتَّ is how you say “you turned” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَإِنَّكَ مَتَى إِلْتَفَتَّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَخَذُوْكَ وَعَاقُوْكَ
For whenever you turn to them, they seize you and hold you back.
الْتَفَتَّ — you turned. A derived (form VIII) completed-action verb 'you turned', with its 'you' subject inside the ending. As the verb of the preceding 'whenever' it is read in a general, recurring sense, not as one finished past act. Its result is the pair of verbs that follow.
From: Choosing Good Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like إِلْتَفَتَّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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