اِجْتَمَعَتْcame together

Example sentences

• وَالْقَنَاطِيرُ الْمُقَنْطَرَةُ وَمَا اِجْتَمَعَتْ إِلَّا بِأَوْزَارٍ،

  And the piled-up loads, and they did not come together except by sins,

  اِجْتَمَعَتْ — they came together. A past-tense verb 'came together' in the feminine-singular shape, which Arabic regularly uses to agree with a non-human plural subject like piled goods. So the feminine ending does not mean a single female did this; it is the grammar for a plural of things. It is negated by the ma before it.

  From: This World Is Short →