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تَحَدَّث
to speak /taˈħaddaθa/
verbA1#105 most common
Also: to talk, to converse, to speak (a language)
Example sentences
هَلْ تَتَحَدَّثُ الإنجليزِيَّةَ؟
Do you speak English?
تَحَدَّثْتُ مَعَ صَديقي أَمْسِ.
I spoke with my friend yesterday.
هِيَ تَتَحَدَّثُ ثَلاثَ لُغاتٍ بِطَلاقةٍ.
She speaks three languages fluently.
تَحَدَّثَ الرَّئيسُ عَنِ الاقْتِصادِ في خِطابِهِ.
The president spoke about the economy in his speech.
لَمْ نَتَحَدَّثْ مُنْذُ سَنَواتٍ بِسَبَبِ خِلافٍ قَديمٍ.
We have not spoken for years because of an old disagreement.
كُلَّما تَحَدَّثْتُ إِلَيْهِ، اكْتَشَفْتُ عُمْقَ مَعْرِفَتِهِ وَسَعَةَ اطِّلاعِهِ.
Whenever I spoke to him, I discovered the depth of his knowledge and the breadth of his learning.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَتَحَدَّثُ | تَحَدَّثْتُ | سَأَتَحَدَّثُ |
| 2sg | تَتَحَدَّثُ | تَحَدَّثْتَ | سَتَتَحَدَّثُ |
| 3sg | يَتَحَدَّثُ | تَحَدَّثَ | سَيَتَحَدَّثُ |
| 1pl | نَتَحَدَّثُ | تَحَدَّثْنا | سَنَتَحَدَّثُ |
| 2pl | تَتَحَدَّثونَ | تَحَدَّثْتُمْ | سَتَتَحَدَّثونَ |
| 3pl | يَتَحَدَّثونَ | تَحَدَّثوا | سَيَتَحَدَّثونَ |
Word family
مُحادَثةconversation, dialogue
حَديثtalk, conversation; Hadith
مُتَحَدِّثspeaker, spokesperson
حَدَّثَto tell, narrate
حَدَثَto happen, occur
Etymology
تحدّث is the Form V verb from the triliteral root ح-د-ث, whose base sense is to happen or to be new. Form II of the same root, حدّث, means to tell or narrate, and Form V turns this into the reflexive idea of talking and conversing. The root also yields حديث, which means both ordinary speech and the Hadith, the recorded sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.
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