whats the verb for "close/shut down" in the context of a business or a shop
i want to say in a natural arabic way "my business closed down as sales went down and we ran out of money"

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whats the verb for "close/shut down" in the context of a business or a shop
i want to say in a natural arabic way  "my business closed down as sales went down and we ran out of money"

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it's not easy, and sometimes it's impossible to translate world by world from English to Arabic and vice versa, or from/to any language, so the same meaning of your clause, in the same context is:
بانخفاض نسبة المبيعات، أوقفت تجارتي، ونفدت مني كل الأموال.
أو
 أوقفت تجارتي، ونفدت مني كل الأموال، بسبب انخفاض نسبة المبيعات.
closed down means: الغلق النهائي
لكن في اللغة العربية لا يمكن القول أن التجارة أغلقت، ولكن بالأحرى نقول أوقفت 
و الجملة الأصح هي:
خسرت تجارتي، ونفدت مني كل الأموال، بسبب انخفاض نسبة المبيعات

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close/shut down = مغلق

it's allmost in all arabic shops

Open = مفتوح

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