إِبْتَدَأَbegan

Example sentences

• لَقَدْ إِبْتَدَأَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي التَّصْنِيفِ وَلَهُ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ سَبْعَ عَشَرَ سَنَةً؛

  Ibn al-Jawzi began compiling works when he was seventeen years old.

  إِبْتَدَأَ — he began. A past-tense verb, 'began', with its 'he' subject carried inside it; the named doer follows because Arabic orders verb-then-subject. It heads the clause and takes its time-frame for the whole 'began compiling' statement.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →