اِتَّبَعَfollowed

Example sentences

• وَاِتَّبَعَنَا سُرَاقَةُ بْنُ مَالِكِ،

  And Suraaqah ibn Malik followed us.

  وَاِتَّبَعَنَا — and followed us. A dense chunk: the 'wa-' (and) links the clause to the narrative, fused onto a past verb whose '-na' here is the object 'us', giving 'and he followed us'. The verb is built on a stem-pattern of pursuing or coming after someone. The named pursuer follows the verb in Arabic's verb-first order.

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