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إِبْتَدَأَ began in Arabic

إِبْتَدَأَ is how you say “began” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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