فَرَغَcompleted

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا فَرَغُوا تَلَتْ طَائِفَةٌ أُخْرَى عَلَى عَدَدِهِمْ آيَةً ثَانِيَةً،

  When they finished, another group recited a second verse according to their number.

  فَرَغُوا — they finished. A past-tense verb 'finished', third-person masculine plural, with the 'they' subject shown by the plural ending fused on. It sits inside the 'when' clause as the completed event that cues the next step. Its plural matches the reciters.

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• فَإِذَا فَرَغُوا أَخَذَ هَذَا الْإِمَامُ الْغَرِيبُ الشَّأْنُ فِي إِيرَادِ خُطْبَتِهِ عَجَلًا مُبْتَدِرًا،

  When they had finished, this imam of uncommon standing hurriedly began to deliver his sermon.

  فَرَغُوا — they finished. A past-tense verb 'finished', third-person masculine plural, with the 'they' subject shown by the plural ending. It sits inside the 'when' clause as the completed event that triggers the imam's turn. Its plural refers to the reciters.

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• ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ أَتَى بَعْدَ أَنْ فَرَغَ مِنْ خُطْبَتِهِ بِرَقَائِقٍ مِنَ الْوَعْظِ،

  Then indeed he came, after he had finished his sermon, with gentle admonitions.

  فَرَغَ — had finished. A past-tense verb with 'he' built into its form. Sitting inside the 'after' clause, it reports the earlier of two past events, which is why natural English renders it as a past perfect ('had finished') even though Arabic uses its ordinary past form.

  From: Public Preaching →