Arabic Verb of the Day - To Search

فبراير 12th, 2008

In Arabic, the word “search” is بحث (bahatha). You will see this word when on the computer and when using one of Google’s Arabic language sites.

Search

Conjugated in the perfect (”past”) tense:

بَحَثْتُ (bahathtu) - I put
بَحَثْتَ (bahathta) - You put (m. sing.)
بَحَثْتِ (bahathti) - You put (f. sing.)
بَحَثْتُمَا (bahathtuma) - You put (dual)
بَحَثْتُم (bahathtum) - You put (m. pl)
بَحَثتُنَّ (bahathtunna) - You put (f. pl)
بَحَثَنَا (bahathanaa) - We put
بَحَثََ (bahatha) - He put
بَحَثَْت (bahathat) - She put
بَحَثَتَا (bahathatam) - They put (dual)
بَحَثُوا (bahathua) - They put (m. pl)
بَحَثْنَ (bahathana) - They put (f. pl)

بَحَثَ في الخِزانة - He searched in the closet.

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