أَصْبَحُواbegan to in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَأَصْبَحُوا يَعْبُدُونَ الْأَصْنَامَ فِي الْبَيْتِ الْحَرَامِ

  So they began to worship idols in the Sacred House.

  فَأَصْبَحُوا — so they began to. The attached 'so' prefix on a past-tense 'began' verb that already holds 'they' in its ending. The prefix marks this as the resulting next step; the verb sets up the worship that follows as something they took up.

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