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تابَع
to follow /taːˈba.ʕa/
verbB1#1581 most common
Also: to continue, to keep up with, to watch (a series, the news)
Example sentences
أُتابِعُ المُباراة.
I am watching the match.
هل تابَعْتَ الفيلم أمس؟
Did you watch the film yesterday?
تُتابِعُ سامية الأخبار كلَّ صباح.
Samia follows the news every morning.
يُتابِعُ الطبيبُ حالةَ المريضِ عن كثب.
The doctor follows the patient's condition closely.
بعد العطلة، تابَعْنا العملَ من حيث توقفنا.
After the holiday, we continued the work from where we had stopped.
تُتابِعُ الوزارةُ تنفيذَ القرار وتُصدِرُ تقريراً شهرياً عن مدى التزام الشركات به.
The ministry monitors the implementation of the decision and issues a monthly report on how far companies comply with it.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُتابِعُ | تابَعْتُ | سَأُتابِعُ |
| 2sg | تُتابِعُ | تابَعْتَ | سَتُتابِعُ |
| 3sg | يُتابِعُ | تابَعَ | سَيُتابِعُ |
| 1pl | نُتابِعُ | تابَعْنا | سَنُتابِعُ |
| 2pl | تُتابِعونَ | تابَعْتُم | سَتُتابِعونَ |
| 3pl | يُتابِعونَ | تابَعوا | سَيُتابِعونَ |
Word family
مُتابَعةfollow-up, monitoring, following
تابِعfollower, subordinate, dependentتَبِعَto follow, come after
اِتَّبَعَto follow, adhere to
تَتابُعsuccession, sequence
Etymology
The verb comes from the Semitic root ت-ب-ع (t-b-ʿ), which carries the basic sense of following or coming after. تابَع is the Form III (fāʿala) derivation, whose long vowel pattern often marks an action done toward or alongside another party. From there the meaning extended to keeping up with, pursuing, and continuing something.
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