تَبَدَّلَتْchanged

Example sentences

• تَبَدَّلَتْ أَوْرَاقُهُ عَنِ الْوَرَقِ

  Its leaves changed, becoming like paper.

  تَبَدَّلَتْ — it changed. A past-tense verb 'changed' in the feminine-singular form, which Arabic uses to agree with a non-human plural subject — here the leaves named next. So the feminine ending does not point to one female but is the regular agreement for a plurality of things. The verb leads, with its subject following.

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