اِسْتَعْجَمْتُbe astonished

Example sentences

• اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ دَارِ نِعَمٍ مَا تَكَلَّمْنَا وَالدَّارُ لَوْ كَلَّمَتْنَا ذَاتُ أَخْبَارٍ

  I was astonished at the House of Blessings; we did not speak, and if the house spoke to us, it would have many stories.

  اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ — I was astonished. A past-tense verb whose ending -tu builds in an 'I' subject, so the speaker is named inside the verb. It opens the line by reporting the speaker's own reaction, with no separate 'I' word needed.

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