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حَدَّد
to determine, to specify /ħadˈdada/
verbB1#1773 most common
Also: to set, to fix (a date or price), to define, to delimit, to identify, to pinpoint
Example sentences
حَدَّدَ الْمَوْعِد.
He set the appointment.
هَلْ حَدَّدْتَ السِّعْر؟
Did you set the price?
حَدَّدَتِ الشَّرِكَة يَوْمَ الِاجْتِمَاع.
The company fixed the day of the meeting.
يَجِبُ أَنْ نُحَدِّدَ أَهْدَافَنَا بِوُضُوح.
We must define our goals clearly.
حَدَّدَتِ الشُّرْطَةُ هُوِيَّةَ الْمُشْتَبَهِ بِه مِنْ خِلَالِ الصُّوَر.
The police identified the suspect through the photographs.
لَمْ تُحَدِّدِ الِاتِّفَاقِيَّةُ بِدِقَّةٍ الْحُدُودَ الْفَاصِلَةَ بَيْنَ الْبَلَدَيْن، مِمَّا أَدَّى إِلَى نِزَاعٍ طَوِيل.
The treaty did not precisely delimit the border between the two countries, which led to a long dispute.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُحَدِّدُ | حَدَّدْتُ | سَأُحَدِّدُ |
| 2sg | تُحَدِّدُ | حَدَّدْتَ | سَتُحَدِّدُ |
| 3sg | يُحَدِّدُ | حَدَّدَ | سَيُحَدِّدُ |
| 1pl | نُحَدِّدُ | حَدَّدْنَا | سَنُحَدِّدُ |
| 2pl | تُحَدِّدُونَ | حَدَّدْتُمْ | سَتُحَدِّدُونَ |
| 3pl | يُحَدِّدُونَ | حَدَّدُوا | سَيُحَدِّدُونَ |
Word family
تَحْدِيدdetermination, specificationحَدّlimit, boundary, edge
مُحَدَّدspecified, defined, fixed
حُدُودborders, limits
مَحْدُودlimited, finiteEtymology
The verb comes from the triliteral Semitic root ḥ-d-d, which carries the sense of an edge, a boundary, or sharpness. The noun ḥadd means a limit or border. In Form II, the doubled middle radical gives a causative, intensive force: to make a boundary, to fix a thing within limits.
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