أَكَلَconsume

Example sentences

• إِن أكلت أكلت طيبا وَإِن أطعمت أطعمت طيبا

  If it consumes, it consumes from the good, and if it gives, it gives from the good.

  أَكَلَتْ — it consumes. The '-at' ending is the feminine subject 'it/she', the bee. Past in form, it serves as the condition's verb, 'if it eats'; the feminine marks agreement with the feminine 'bee'.

  From: Contentment with What God Wills →

• إِن أكلت أكلت طيبا وَإِن أطعمت أطعمت طيبا

  If it consumes, it consumes from the good, and if it gives, it gives from the good.

  أَكَلَتْ — it consumes. The same verb repeated as the answer, 'it eats...', the result echoing the condition. Arabic's habit of repeating the verb welds the 'if' to its 'then'.

  From: Contentment with What God Wills →

• قال نعم يا سيدي، ناقته دخلت حائطي وأكلت زرعي، فحبستها حتى يأتي صاحبها

  He replied: Yes, my lord, his camel entered my field and ate my crops, so I detained it until its owner comes.

  وَأَكَلَتْ — and ate. This is 'and' joined to a past verb 'ate' carrying a feminine ending that agrees with the she-camel. The 'and' chains a second act onto the entering. The feminine shape again ties the eating to the camel as doer.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• فقال الأعرابي إنه يطلب ثمن ما أكلت ناقتي

  The Bedouin said: He demands the price of what my camel ate.

  أَكَلَتْ — it ate. Past-tense 'it ate' with a feminine ending agreeing with the she-camel as its doer. It sits inside the relative clause opened by 'what', describing what was consumed. The feminine shape ties the eating to the camel.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• فقال الوالي كم أكلت؟

  The governor asked: How much did it eat?

  أَكَلَتْ — did it eat. Past-tense 'it ate' with a feminine ending agreeing with the she-camel as doer. The 'it' subject is inside the verb. It completes the governor's question about how much the camel consumed.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• قال الجار أكلت زرعًا قيمته عشرة دراهم

  The neighbor said: It ate crops worth ten dirhams.

  أَكَلَتْ — It ate. Past-tense 'it ate' with a feminine ending agreeing with the she-camel as doer, the 'it' inside the verb. It opens the neighbor's statement of what was consumed and governs the object after it.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• وَمَا أَوَّّلُ طَعَامِ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ

  And what is the first food the people of Paradise will eat?

  يَأْكُلُهُ — eats it. A present verb with an attached 'it' opening a describing clause on 'food': the food they will eat. With no separate relative word, the verb simply trails the noun, and the suffix points back to that food as what is eaten.

  From: What Was Created First →

• ثُمَّ أَذِنَ لِعَشَرَةٍ، فَأَكَلَ الْقَوْمُ كُلُّهُمْ وَشَبِعُوا،

  Then he permitted ten, and all the people ate and were satisfied.

  فَأَكَلَ — then he ate. The fa- delivers the result -- 'so (they) ate' -- the verb here singular in form but reaching ahead to the collective 'people' as its subject. The fa- ties the eating to the final permission.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →

• فَقَالَ إِنِّي مَعَ رَجُلٍ إِنْ أَكَلَ ذِكْرَ اسْمِ اللَّهِ فَلَا آكُلُ مَعَهُ

  He said, "I am with a man; if he eats while mentioning the Name of God, I will not eat with him."

  أُكَلَ — he eats. A verb serving as the condition after 'if', here 'he eats'. Under a conditional particle the verb is read as the trigger of the hypothetical, not a stated fact.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →

• فَقَالَ الآخَرُ لَكِنِّي مَعَ رَجُلٍ إِنْ أَكَلَ لَمْ يَسْمِ اللَّهَ فَأَكَلْتُ أَنَا وَهُوَ جَمِيعًا

  The other said, 'But I am with a man; if he eats without saying the name of God, then I and he eat together.'

  أُكْلَ — he ate. A past-tense verb 'ate' serving as the condition after 'if'. Under the conditional it reads as the trigger of the hypothetical rather than a stated fact.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →